Quotes About Habit

Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.

They made the same mistakes over and over again because they weren't conscious of what they were doing.

They'd fallen into their old ways, accusatory and evasive, which was reassuring in a perverted way. Leo understood the nasty pull of the regrettable familiar, how the old grooves could be so much more satisfying than the looming unknown. It's addicts stayed addicts.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three.

It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind-- I suppose in my isolation-- I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.

I find pleasure in cynicism, the habit is growing. Let it grow, it is a fine protection against the world.

Husbands are annoying at times, but they are a habit which grows on one, and life is extraordinarily dull without them.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

None of us don't have a vice.

Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.

I'd say my biggest vice is caffeine, tea or coffee.

So for me, my vice and big challenge is coffee intake. I drink black, organic coffee, but I drink way too much.

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

I can't play video games because I have that addictive personality. If I started playing video games I wouldn't stop.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

Leo, do take Win to her room. You're both exhausted. We'll have time for talking tomorrow."(Amelia) "Ah, that lovely tone of command," Leo reminisced. "I'd hoped that by now you would have rid her of the habit of barking out orders like a drill sergeant, Rohan." "I enjoy all her habits," Rohan replied, smiling at his wife.

Sometimes you think you love someone," I said, "but it's really just that they've become a habit.

People are more comfortable with a familiar discomfort than they are with an unfamiliar new possibility.