Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas White

Mr. Bradley has seemed to go off the deep end in his addiction to crack cocaine,

E. Hicks

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn't work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don't have the social or vocational skills to help them cope and find a new life.

Michael Irvin

More important to me is to help my friends and help my brother and to remove this drug addiction spirit out of my family.

Karen Tandy

More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.

Tom Vilsack

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

Dean Koontz

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

David Bowie

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Jack Czarnecki

I have a thing about duck, ... It's a culinary addiction -- when we eat out, my 'I'll have the duck' is so commonplace that my wife doesn't even bother to roll her eyes anymore.

Darrell Vienna

She's relaxing more. She laid off Healthy Addiction and pounced.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Alice Munro

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Colin Farrell

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

David Foster Wallace

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Jack Kevorkian

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Stephen Graham Jones

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Greg Panter

From our perspective the facts are it's a good year, but by no means a record flow.

Kenneth Frazier

If a retrial is scheduled we will be right back with the same facts.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.