Pastoral Resources

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

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.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.