The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
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.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.