Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

It was definitely a gambling addiction that started about four years ago,

Andy Williams

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

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.

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

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.

Jay Sidhu

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

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.

Ken Hensley

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

Keith Richards

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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.

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.

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.

Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

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.

Mason Cooley

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Mary Kay Ash

People fail forward to success.

Jackson Pollock

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

John McCain

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

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.

Shane Koyczan

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

John Oliver

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

Lauren Conrad

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

John Mayer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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