Habits Quotes

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
Cynthia Nixon

Experience, Mother, Daily

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
Marilu Henner

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley

Character, True, Bad

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
Sherri Shepherd

Change, Through, Off

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
Eubie Blake

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
Talib Kweli

Balance, Healthy, Eat

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor

Beautiful, Mother, After

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
Renee Fleming

Time, Away, Walk

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Future, May

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
John James Audubon

Best, Songs, Listening

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
John Irving

Good, Worth, Fanatical

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately

Children, Giving, Industry

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Political, Down

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
Chris Pratt

Love, Show, Weird

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root

Peace, War, Long

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
Gary Bauer

America, Poor, Move

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller

Work, Bad, Hard

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Stuart Chase

Hard, Words, Find

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
June Jordan

Political, Writing, Self

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.
Julie Bowen

Matter, Fact, Concerned

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.
Julie Bowen

Night, Matter, Fact

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater

Failure, Two, After

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Joshua Foer

Work, Art, Control

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
Ben Gibbard

Best, Bad, Starting

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock

History, Through, Country

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Canadian, Temperate

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
Ingrid Newkirk

Change, Pain, Bad

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin

Good, Bad, Definition

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.
Eric Ripert

Enjoy, Problem, Start

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Al Franken

Bad, Stuff, Liberal

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