Habits And Customs Quotes

#1. Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Virginia Woolf

#2. The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

Grover Cleveland

#3. When we want to infuse new ideas,
to modify or better the habits and customs of a people,
to breathe new vigor into its national traits,
we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.

Maria Montessori

#4. Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.

Tina Brown

#6. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Be good.
See good.
Choose good.
It's a no-brainer.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.

Rumi

#9. There was the moment-the moment I went back there for. That was the moment I knew that this man was going to change my life forever. Suddenly, I found myself wanting to change his.

Ella Frank

#10. I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

Martha Wainwright

#11. The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Anne Tyler

#12. The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Nelson Mandela

#13. I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

David Liss

#14. The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

John Keegan

#15. For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

Andre Malraux

#17. Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#19. We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Richard V. Allen

#20. A kiss may ruin a human life

Oscar Wilde