Famous Quotes & Sayings

I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,

They are here because they have an addiction that they need help with. We treat them with dignity.

Andy Williams

It was like an addiction ... I wanted to be wealthy,

Shane Koyczan

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

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.

Lorna Luft

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

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.

Mason Cooley

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Mary Kay Ash

People fail forward to success.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

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.

Jeremy Collier

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

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.

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.

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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.

If Hoosiers can't get enough basketball in Indianapolis this March, they've got an addiction that we can't help them with.

Albert Camus

I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.

Harold Rosenberg

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

Christopher Lasch

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

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.

Jackson Pollock

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

Kent Conrad

The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy.

Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an 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.

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.