#habit

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#around #better #getting #getting better #getting older

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. ↗

— Barack Obama

#begun #better #bit #blood #children

There is no influence like the influence of habit. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#influence #like

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. ↗

— Rick Perry

#breathe #creator #critical #drink #elements

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#form #habitually #here #poetry #should

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#before #friends #habits #i #i am

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#ascertained #assumptions #believes #creed #habitually

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#bad habits #break #easier #habits #prevent

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. ↗

— Paul Williams

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