Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. From LearnThat.org. [Mary Martin (1913-1990)]
It was their habit to dine at 7 every evening. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She had a habit twirling the ends of her hair. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Real habit is as mysterious and magnetic as example!. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Arnold Kling's habit is to post topics for discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Price Outlook, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
This habit is costing me sleep and I want to change it. From Wordnik.com. [1/31/09: Thirty-one random days make a month] Reference
My worst writing habit is finding excuses to not do it. From Wordnik.com. [Questions « Write Anything] Reference
About trifles; I grant you; but the habit is no trifle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
My bad habit is that I can fall asleep literally ANYWHERE!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Your Hunting Habits] Reference
I fell into this long-term habit quite innocently, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Halfway There] Reference
The habit is of great good to your moral man, depend upon it. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference
GROSS: ... a heroin habit, a car accident, a cerebral hematoma. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life'] Reference
However, very few people can change a long-term habit overnight. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
I think the best writing habit is to have someone speacial in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Funny Writing Habits] Reference
So now, thanks to Dino, I'll be feeding my pumpkin habit after all. From Wordnik.com. [I was going to go Cold Turkey] Reference
Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The habit is what the word habit refers to on the basis of the label. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session One: The Basics for Understanding Voidness] Reference
I guess I removed that habit from the gene pool as none have been back. From Wordnik.com. [Bear Trees Man In Alaska] Reference
To fail to sustain such a habit is called “pulling a John Travolta.”. From Wordnik.com. [Best Actors of the Decade | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
Here are 10 proven strategies that will help you break the buzzword habit. From Wordnik.com. [AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS] Reference
Such a habit is easily passed onto offspring my a mother cougar with cubs. From Wordnik.com. [They just said on tv that a black lab saved 2 people from a mountain lion attack in California.] Reference
Excessive Anger, rather than a bad habit, is simply a genetic predisposition. From Wordnik.com. [Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Starting the reading habit from the home is easier than "corporatised" efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Money Where the Mouth Is] Reference
If young girls learn to do this, the habit is not easily broken once they marry. From Wordnik.com. [Widows] Reference
The end result of that habit is what the eco-fanatics are looking for eventually. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Bloggers Launch Campaign to Waste Energy : Law is Cool] Reference
These social connotations are the stuff of which the drink habit is largely composed. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXXIX] Reference
In addition to its connection to habitation, habit is intimately related to recollection. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
My habit is to just stare at a long stretch of river looking for any signs of fish movement. From Wordnik.com. [Five Ways to Spot More Trout] Reference
We'll see whether pragmatism, ideology or the long-term habit of "drug war" politics wins out. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Drug Czar Nominee Approved a Potential Break from the Past] Reference
In fact, this is the reason why we call the habit of perfected self-mastery by the name which in. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
If such a habit is formed, try to conquer it by reasoning, and by direct appeals to good feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
The Scapular, as part of the habit, is common to many religious Orders, but it is a special feature of the Carmelites. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses] Reference
Nowadays the habit is to cajole, bribe or beg despots to stop their depredations – whether in Sudan, North Korea, Zimbabwe. From Wordnik.com. [Africa] Reference
An equally as common but much worse cultural habit is that of never calling to cancel when students can't make an appointment. From Wordnik.com. [Private ESL Classes In Mexico] Reference
I don't recall ever seeing Poll Checkers at work when I've voted in the past, but our habit is to get in and out early in the day. From Wordnik.com. [November 2004] Reference
Here in southern California, because of the good weather we have street people out all the time and our usual habit is to ignore them. From Wordnik.com. [Begging-Mazatlan] Reference
My habit is pretty simple: I have two or three things I really want to write each day, and I write them as early in the day as possible. From Wordnik.com. [10 Steps to Create the Habit of Writing | Write to Done] Reference
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