Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Shahi

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

The defendant had something else, though, a secret. He had an addiction to prescription drugs.

Cornel West

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Colin Quinn

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

This sends a clear signal to persistent beggars that we will maintain a tough line against drug and alcohol addiction that is often funded through town centre begging.

Dan Rather

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

With any addiction like gambling, it becomes the central feature of the person's life. Everything else hangs on it.

(With) a lot of these new technologies, there's this element of addiction whether it's cell phones or checking your e-mail or blog. Last year, everywhere I went, like cafes and wireless nodes, everyone was checking their Facebook, posting in their Facebook groups and e-mailing.

Fighting America's oil addiction with these standards is like fighting lung cancer by smoking 49 cigarettes a day instead of 50.

Michael Irvin

You know what, I've thought about that and it certainly hurts me, and it certainly hurts me, because I was hurt last year, not making it, and it's very important to me, ... But it's more important to me to help my friends, to help my brother, and to try to remove this spirit -- this drug addiction spirit -- out of my family.

most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions - designed to help modify the patient's thinking, expectancies and behaviors, and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors.

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in general. In some cases, the addiction has become so bad that they can't perform sexually without pornographic stimulus.

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

Carl Pope

Those leaders who have stood strong to keep Arctic drilling out of the budget must continue to hold the line. It?s time for Congress to put this bad idea to rest once and for all and focus instead breaking our oil addiction with clean energy solutions.

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.

We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city.

My opinion is that anyone repeatedly driving DUI has an illness, and that illness is called alcoholism, ... Now, you've got someone with a disease, and you take away their license, and you have someone with an alcohol addiction with no license getting behind the wheel of a car. That's an additional crime, so you'll have someone going to jail. ? Now you've broken up the family and taken away the breadwinner.

Alice Miller

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Annie Dillard

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Dale Archer

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

David Foster Wallace

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

Davina McCall

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

Desmond Tutu

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Andre Benjamin

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Anais Nin

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Anais Nin

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Anthony Hopkins

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Allan Bloom

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Pam Bondi

We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it's also a crime.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.