Quotes About Habit

until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable. My habits...for once were missing, and all my faculties came hurrying to take their place.

The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short a time to divest of their mystery the sacred forces with which we are in contact, that, not having had my call at once, my immediate thought was that it was all very long and very inconvenient, and I almost decided to lodge a complaint.

Such effects of Habit may seem contradictory; but the laws which govern it are many and varied. In Paris, it was because of Habit that I had become more and more indifferent to Gilberte. The change in my habits—that is, the momentary suspension of Habit—put its finishing touch to that process when I set off for Balbec. Habit may weaken all things, but it also stabilizes them; it brings about a dislocation, but then makes it last indefinitely.

There is no science for the teguments of a leaf, for the filaments of a cell structure, the winding of a vein, the passion of a habit, or for the twists and quirks of character.

Las mujeres de mi especie saben entornar los ojos y les quedó el hábito ancestral de mirar por sobre el hombro. Es que una rara y contradictoria seguridad va plasmada a esos ojos y eso es lo único que hace tolerable la inseguridad cósmica que da el existir.

You don't even like smoking them. You just like thinking about smoking them.

It's the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.

When I was younger, I walked on my toes and made clicking sounds with my tongue. A therapist taught me how to stop.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of

But my desire for knowledge was stronger than my religious sensibilities, which after all were more a matter of unthinking habit than real conviction.

where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health