Quotes about addiction
addiction done problem
All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems? Scott Hall
addiction black blind
[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. Ray Charles
addiction tables way
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken. Eric Hoffer
addiction welfare crime
The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics. James Cook
addiction way example
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. Nolan Bushnell
addiction acting
Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop. Liev Schreiber
addiction joy causes
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction. John Brunner
addiction drug dangerous
Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ... M. Scott Peck
addiction mind pills
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
addiction long choices
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices. Padgett Powell
addiction
MySpace is an addiction. Paulo Coelho
addiction trying subculture
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. Jonathan Lethem
addiction
Addiction is rarely conquered alone. Ellen Hopkins
addiction stories love-story
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. Elizabeth Gilbert
addiction enemy cunning
I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy. John McCain
addiction beast
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. John Oliver
addiction addict
I was a functional addict. James Taylor
addiction people watches
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.
addiction support addict
I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction. Lucas Till
addiction listening four
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too. Louise Jameson
addiction snow way
. . . 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 . . . M. F. K. Fisher
addiction moments lifetime
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime. Mahatma Gandhi
addiction ascent easy
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
addiction humanity drug
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. Freda Adler
addiction imagine can-do
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. Henry Ford
addiction seductive culture
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. Judith Wright
addiction sober recovering
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. John Mayer
addiction hardest hardest-thing
Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life. Lynda Carter
addiction people juice
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. Lynda Resnick
addiction directors noir
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. Pauline Kael
addiction evil mind
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
addiction culture twins
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
addiction bed sometimes
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.