Habituating Quotes & Sayings

Magazines devoted to the religion of success appear as Makers of America. They mean just about that when they preach evolution, progress, prosperity, being constructive, the American way of doing things. It is easy to laugh, but, in fact, they are using a very great pattern of human endeavor. For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively. To be sure the idea confuses excellence with size, happiness with speed, and human nature with contraption. Yet the same motives are at work which have ever actuated any moral code, or ever will. The desire fir the biggest, the fastest, the highest, or if you are a maker of wristwatches or microscopes the smallest; the love in short of the superlative and the "peerless," is in essence and possibility a noble passion. — Walter Lippmann

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke ... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside. — Leslie Marmon Silko

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, — Susan Sontag

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses. — Nadia Boulanger

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling. — Niki Taylor

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize — Joseph Campbell

One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed. — Chanakya

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles. — Charlotte Bronte