Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am addicted to 'Halo' and play almost every night. By giving it up, I will have more time to reflect and to also lead a faith-sharing group.

I feel addicted and at a party, if I don't consume ecstasy, I can't enjoy the party,

Harold Rosenberg

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Elton John

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

Ellen Burstyn

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Richard Wagner

Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful.

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.

Lorna Luft

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

Mark Twain

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

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.

Fran Lebowitz

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

James Taylor

I was a functional addict.

James Taylor

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Os Guinness

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Mason Cooley

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Mary Kay Ash

People fail forward to success.

Jackson Pollock

How do you know when you're finished making love?

John McCain

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

The challenge on Long Island is, how do we deal with our addiction to oil and natural gas? Small businesses have to be more energy-efficient. If you don't, you're wasting money.

The company was addicted to a particular revenue stream and distribution model.

The commission complaint alleges this campaign was used to promote an addictive and dangerous product to children and adolescents under the age of 18 and that this practice is illegal.

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.

Michael Fassbender

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Michael Steinhardt

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Eric Hoffer

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

James Cook

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Padgett Powell

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.