Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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,

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.

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 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.

Jean Cocteau

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Gene Tierney

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Fergie

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

Francis Chan

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!

Addiction thrives in secrecy. The only real difference is that they can hide this one easier.

John Walters

Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.

Hugh Hefner

So unless you can turn sexual addiction on and off ... .

Oil addiction can happen to anyone. For too long people have not faced up to their addiction and the consequences are now obvious. Your oil addition not only ruins your life and the life of your families, but the lives of most of the world's inhabitants.

The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.

I've always had an interest and addiction to photography. I do events and weddings and my specialty is golf course photography.

I've seen cases of parents with bad credit that use their kid's name to get utilities. Other cases involved friends with addiction or gambling problems that steal your personal information to open credit card accounts.

The time will come when human can do almost everything with the technology and still one thing remains impossible, releasing addiction on technology.

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction in back 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem.

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem. In no way has the hype lived up to what has actually been found in research.

The consequences aren't there as much for the kids as they are for the adults. Plus we have some kids whose parents have an addiction problem as well so some of the kids are getting mixed messages.