Pastoral Resources

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

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.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.