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Quotations regarding 'Habit'

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Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Craig Kilborn, Entertainer (1962-  )
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician (1874-1950)
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley, English Actor (1943-  )
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston, American Writer (1940-  )
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Mike Krzyzewski, American Coach (1947-  )
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Charles Kuralt, American Journalist (1934-1997)
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet (1790-1869)
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist (1950-  )
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
Chris LeDoux, American Musician (1948-2005)
I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakian Athlete (1960-  )
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
Melissa Leo, American Actress (1960-  )
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
Ron Lewis, American Politician (1946-  )
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg, Physicist (1742-1799)
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Alphonsus Liguori, Italian Clergyman (1696-1787)
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer (1951-  )
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Rich Little, Canadian Comedian (1938-  )
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi, American Coach (1913-1970)
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi, American Coach (1913-1970)
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi, American Coach (1913-1970)
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde, American Poet (1934-  )
 
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