Attentiveness had become a habit with me, and, besides, I was not yet capable of packing up the office.

NEWYORKER: The Slows

She is now at university and says she is the happiest she has ever been, even though she thinks the impulse to self-harm will come back at times when she feels low, because it had become an addiction, a habit.

BBC: Education & Family

But instead of positive policies aimed at making that happen, we've had the opposite: reckless fiscal policies and a president with a tragic habit of ignoring problems until they become crises.

CNN: Clinton's November 19, 2007, speech on economic challenges