top of page
.png){kind=small}
Habit Quotes
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
53
"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."
53
"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
51
"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch."
50
"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."
49
"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
49
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
49
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
48
"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
48
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
48
"Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two."
47
"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."
47
"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
47
"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated."
47
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
47
"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
46
"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."
45
"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."
45
"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."
43
"We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life."
43
"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
43
"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."
42
"You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor."
42
"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."
41
"There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that."
41
"There is no influence like the influence of habit."
41
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
40
bottom of page