Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Koyczan

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

Scott Hall

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?

Ray Charles

[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.

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.

Eric Hoffer

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.

James Cook

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Padgett Powell

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.

Liev Schreiber

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

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.

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is an addiction.

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.

Nolan Bushnell

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

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.

Judith Wright

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.

Lynda Carter

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

Lynda Resnick

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.

Lucas Till

I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

Louise Jameson

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

M. F. K. Fisher

. . . 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 . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Freda Adler

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.

Josh Billings

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

John Brunner

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

M. Scott Peck

Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ...

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.