Sentence examples for inability to quit from inspiring English sources

I also wondered if other politicians, on either side of the Atlantic, suffered from an inability to quit making stump speeches.

An advantage of the waterborne tour is the chance to look at things for a while; the drawback is the inability to quit at will.

And, sure enough, when Buckley shifts the scene to the party leadership's enclave near Tiananmen Square, the president of the People's Republic, Fa Mengyao, is revealed to be a mild-mannered, self-­effacing centrist suffering from mostly mundane afflictions: indigestion, insomnia and an inability to quit smoking.

Quitting does not show weakness, the inability to quit does.

They were of course symbolic of his self-destructive tendencies, yet he couldn't take the risk of trying to quit because to do so and fail would be psychologically more harmful than contemplating one's chronic inability to quit.

The main reasons given for an inability to quit were lack of control of cravings for smoking (57%) and peer influence (30%).

Napoleon's fatal flaw was his obsession with endless foreign enemies and his inability to know when to quit.

The main cause of relapse in smokers attempting to quit is inability to resist urges to smoke.

Symptoms include lack of energy, apathy, poor judgment and indifference resulting in a desire to quit and an inability to care.

My relationships have always fallen apart thanks to my inability to summon the courage I need to quit, and the dulling of my conscience has led to a regrettably long list of mistakes and bad decisions.

But never mistake my unwillingness to compromise your success for my inability to understand how it feels to want to quit.