Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our goal in smoking-related research is to detect those who are susceptible to nicotine, identify the best ways to prevent these persons from beginning to smoke and, if they do, determine how best to break the nicotine addiction that can result.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

People not only had economic issues, at that time we began to see an epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse. Drug and alcohol addiction made it difficult for many to hold jobs and keep the family together.

Eric Schaeffer

Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that humor is a tremendously, tremendously important antidote to recovery.

Some people are impulsive, some people are not; some people think through their decisions while others don't, and sometimes this can become pathological. Impulsive behavior can be associated with all sorts of mental disorders like addiction or problem gambling. If it could be demonstrated that we could change the way people perceive risk and ambiguity by introducing a medication that could influence brain chemistry, someday we might be able to alleviate some types of pathological decision making.

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.

It is one form of harm reduction but to me it resigns everybody, including the addict, that since you have no hope of beating your addiction we'll just feed it in a controlled environment.

I will not use my addiction as an excuse for what I've done. I take responsibility for my actions. I will never come back to this court again.

Chelsea Handler

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

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.

That would make addiction more inheritable than diseases we commonly think of as genetic, such as adult onset diabetes or common hypertension.

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.

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.

Pam Bondi

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

Our addiction to oil is a matter of national security concern.

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.

John Oliver

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Lynda Carter

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

Lynda Resnick

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Lucas Till

I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

Louise Jameson

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

M. F. K. Fisher

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Freda Adler

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

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.

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.

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.