"the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental."

-- Margaret Deland

#Years Quotes #Habit Quotes #Break Quotes

“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.”

Source : MTV News Online, 1992.
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
“I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.”
“The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.”
“Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.138, New Directions Publishing
“As Carol Dweck says, â€œEffort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.”
“I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.”
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

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