Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

John McCain

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

Sophie Anderton

Smoking is hardest to give up because it's legal. I smoke because I'm addicted - nicotine should be a Class A drug.

Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Bertrand Russell

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Marie Lu

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

After half a century in psychiatric practice, I know without a doubt that the source of addiction is spiritual deficiency. Irrespective of whether we are religious or atheist, all human beings are spiritual by nature and spirituality is the cornerstone of our recovery.

Wink Martindale

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Howard Zinn

The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton.

This is a classical gambling addiction where the person feels it's over and takes everybody down,

This is a bipartisan effort to support ethanol. President Bush said we're addicted to oil. He's right.

They screwed me out of about two grand. It didn't matter because I already had caught the bug. It became the most abusive, passionate relationship and I've been addicted every since.

Joy Bauer

They say you have to exhibit physical withdrawal for it to be an addiction. But clearly, people will say that psychologically and emotionally, they are addicted to sugar.

George H. W. Bush

America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.

You must learn to work without me. You cannot be here always, you have other works to do. You have come from different countries all over the world. For a few days you will be here with me. If you become addicted to my physical presence, then rather than being a help, it may become a disturbance. Because then when you go away, you will miss me. Your meditation should be such here, that it can happen without my presence. Then, wherever you go, the meditation will not in any way be affected.

You might want to have somebody on there that is familiar with the power of the addiction to gaming, ... You'd want to have somebody sensitive to the enterprise potentially abusing poor people.

Janet Reno

This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner, ... Not only did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human life.

There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction or forward. She would say just a comforting word, give you a hug, no matter what you looked like.

It's a stressful job to be in. You're always looking for work, ... Once you're a superstar, if you started smoking when you were a struggling actor, it's very hard to quit. It's a highly addictive product.

Mick Mars

It was bothering me a lot, and I became addicted to pain medication, which is like what dragged me down. When we first started talking about this thing, I was like pretty much out of it, but I wanted to do it. So I needed to get myself overhauled, cleaned up and everything else to do this, because I wanted to do it, you know?

It was definitely a gambling addiction that started about four years ago,

Jeremy Collier

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

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.

Jeffrey Kluger

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Jean Cocteau

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.