Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Sixx

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

Louis Leakey

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

Michael Crichton

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

Marianne Williamson

A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

Kristin Armstrong

Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Paul R. Ehrlich

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Michelle Malkin

Contrary to the belief that Obama is America's Lightworker who can defy political gravity, H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, guarantees more of the same old borrow-spend-panic-repeat cycle that got us into our current mess in the first place.

Michael Phelps

For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.

Scott Stevens

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

Todd Tiahrt

Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

Norman Cousins

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

Norman Cousins

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

John Wesley

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

Maurice Gibb

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

Matthew Perry

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Matthew Perry

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Martin Sheen

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Mariska Hargitay

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

Max Baucus

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.

Maya Angelou

But still, like air, I'll rise

Melody Beattie

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Michelle Bachelet

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Michael Parenti

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

Nancy Pelosi

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Heather Mills

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

Mallory Ortberg

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

This has nothing to do with B.J., because I think he's made the recovery and will be fine,