Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.
Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.
Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.
The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.