Top 1200 Old Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

The old Logan was plain old insensitive.

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

We assume that healthy habits are a good idea, but in and of themselves, they are not the reason we're going to be active at age 95 or 100. The body works in more complex ways.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.

The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

Taking time off if you're not banged up can be trouble. It can lead to bad habits - in your workouts and in your diet.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.