change the habit of a lifetime
break the habit of a lifetime

Learning to change the habits of a lifetime will take longer than a week or a month.

But if it does change the habit of a lifetime and move against him in 2012, what next?

And city residents are changing the habits of a lifetime.

"It is difficult to change the habits of a lifetime.

We will therefore encourage the military to change the habits of a lifetime and be civil.

"We're talking about changing the habits of a lifetime," he said.

The answer to this is to be patient and realize that you are changing the habits of a lifetime.

There are some more or less unfamiliar wines, all American, that might just change the habits of a lifetime.

Even so, I have no intention of changing the habits of a lifetime.

"Why change the habit of a lifetime?"

At Mr Baker's age there was little point and probably less chance of persuading him to change the habits of a lifetime.

I was foolishly romantic if I thought that Bevil would change the habits of a lifetime merely because he had met me.

I think not, and so I have set out at last to change the habit of a lifetime and write about The New Transported Man.

I urge the Minister to persuade interior ministries and home offices to change the habits of a lifetime and be open, candid and accountable in their dealings.

Those CIA grey flannel con artists at Langley are going to have to change the habits of a lifetime and actually speak to people they've been at war with forty years!

News that Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni (right) are dating has convulsed France, causing even Le Figaro to change the habits of a lifetime.

EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest, writes Ken Rogers.

Now in his mid-80's, Mr. Bell evidently could not change the habits of a lifetime of literary self-effacement; he continues to feel comfortable in the position of the observer and uncomfortable as the observed.

Thunderstone kept to his word and worked hard at changing all he could amongst the men of Underfall, but it was not an easy task to change the habits of a lifetime, hold a grip upon his temper and yet still seek standards high enough to keep World's End secure.

But it was not easy to break the habits of a lifetime.

It was almost impossible to break the habit of a lifetime.

In that context, will he break the habit of a lifetime and answer two questions straight?

"You ask me to break the habit of a lifetime in a few moments.

He couldn't break the habit of a lifetime in an instant.

If a human tries to break the habit of a lifetime, no one expects immediate success.

It would be breaking the habit of a lifetime.

Breaking the habit of a lifetime, he has joined a Commons standing committee.

And if Bob saw such a thing in the lot, he'd break the habit of a lifetime and spend his evening someplace else.

Admiral Arnold Morgan was breaking the habit of a lifetime.

The Parliament and Commission should break the habit of a lifetime and forget about it.

Not even for a Katie Brown diorama did I consider breaking the habit of a lifetime.

Just this once I am going to break the habits of a lifetime and take your IOU.'

'Why break the habits of a lifetime?'

If either of you makes the slightest move-the slightest-I will have to break the habit of a lifetime and kill you.

Iain Dale explains why many Conservatives are breaking the habit of a lifetime and declaring support for the Democrats.

He broke the habit of a lifetime by agreeing to a series of public readings even while he was engaged on a piece of fiction.

In fact, if you keep it up, I give notice that I'll break the habit of a lifetime and, instead of pointing out your errors, will simply report you.

She might have drawn the line if I'd suggested murdering her, but even then I wouldn't have counted on her being able to break the habit of a lifetime.

Halifax, Nationwide and the Council of Mortgage Lenders all broke the habit of a lifetime and refused to publish a house price forecast for 2009.

When they go to visit the local bookmaker, Bunny convinces Stephen to break the habit of a lifetime and take a risk by putting fifty pounds on a rank outsider.

His books include The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott (ed), Breaking the Habits of a Lifetime and After Euclid.

Just leave me alone again, why not, it's what you always do, just leave me alone with loving you, wanting you, needing you - why break the habits of a lifetime - GO!'

But first I broke the habit of a lifetime and read the instruction booklet (admittedly this was because although I remembered to bring the instructions home from work, I forgot the Nintendo DS).

The moral majority will probably froth at the mouth about it, but even they would experience a sense of being undermined if, for once, they broke the habit of a lifetime and investigated the subject of their opprobrium.