Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Johnson

The objective of the Drug Court is really to reduce the number of kids placed out of home -- to cure them of drug addiction in an effort to reduce their delinquency ... and prevent them from being locked up or sent to a placement facility.

James Frey

The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.

The benefits are almost intangible but there's so much to it. It is almost an addiction in the sense that it fulfills so many aspects of being alive, being human. Kids benefit especially adolescents because they're so in touch with their emotions. But these kids are still malleable-they aren't so set that they can't break out of their shell.

That 'from addiction to recovery' tag line is really big.

This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.

Once addiction takes place, the patient has no choice but to continue to use. Physiological and neurological changes take place in the brain. You can actually see the changes that have taken place in the brain.

David Thomas

It's referred to as a positive addiction in that case because the result is that it makes you do something that's good for your body as long as you don't become obsessive with it. If you get obsessive, then it's not positive, but if you get desire to want exercise on a regular basis, and you keep it sane, then that's very positive.

Paul Burke

Anyone truly homeless and not a street person through drug and alcohol addiction should be given help.

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,

It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered: a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.

It's such a novel way of treating an addiction because it's not targeting any part of the brain. It's targeting the molecule itself.

Andy Williams

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

This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Buzz Aldrin

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

Jay Sidhu

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

Moby

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Jim DeMint

Spending is an addiction.

Jess Walter

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

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.

Emma Forrest

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Hillary Clinton

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I know I struggled with it during my high school/adolescent stage. It was an addiction that I fought with every day. I was trying to conquer my sexual desires through something the world says is acceptable. Though it is no longer a daily struggle, it is something that I must ask God to sustain me from. I understand now that only God can fight these battles. Through God's strength, temptations, especially pornography, can be defeated, but only if we maintain a daily relationship with Him.

Linda Cardellini

I know, I know. It gets blonder and blonder. It's a sick addiction at this point.

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

Jonathan Lethem

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Pauline Kael

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Martin Amis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Paulo Coelho

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

Pope Francis

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.