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Habitable Quotes (page 29)

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable. John Irving
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path. Charlotte Bronte
Thomas Jefferson quote: "It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed...."
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. Thomas Jefferson
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things. Marcel Proust
Rollo May quote: "It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they..."
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. Rollo May
Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? Julian Barnes
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame Virginia Woolf
It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. Marcel Proust
David Lodge quote: "Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted..."
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. David Lodge
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
Stephen King quote: "A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to..."
A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. Stephen King
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of... Jane Austen
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all..."
Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once. L. M. Montgomery

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