Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's very rewarding. I don't know what gets so addictive about it. I think you catch it from somebody - like a disease.

They come in any day of the week at any time, this is not related just to partying on the weekend or so-called recreational use but shows that there are a lot of people out there who are addicted and take this drug on a daily basis.

They are here because they have an addiction that they need help with. We treat them with dignity.

David Rosenberg

For an economy addicted to credit ... periodic interest rate spasms of the likes we are seeing today could easily derail the nascent turnaround from the 'growth recession' of the past nine months.

Senator Kerry

It's the Bush administration and Washington Republicans who are addicted to oil, and this administration refuses to break the dependence that undermines our economy and threatens our security.

It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.

It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.

Jonathan Lethem

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Pauline Kael

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Martin Amis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Paulo Coelho

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

Pope Francis

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

Lauren Conrad

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

John Mayer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Judith Wright

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

Josh Billings

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Lorna Luft

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

Marianne Williamson

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Mark Twain

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Ken Hensley

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

Keith Richards

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

There is the only pure negative. That is the concern about addiction and people losing too much money, ... we've got a problem and we are going to tackle it.

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

Kevin Bacon

There's an addictive quality to fame and when your celebrity starts to wane, people get a real fear about that, ... And that's why I think sometimes you see people who will put themselves on whatever real weird reality shows or they'll find themselves just back in the paper by doing something horrible. I almost get the feeling that it's better than not being in the paper.

Shane Koyczan

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Scott Hall

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

Ray Charles

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.