Famous Quotes & Sayings

He is so out of control with his crack addiction that he is willing to do armed robberies to support it,

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Sarah Silverman

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Rodney King

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Robin Williams

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Roger Babson

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Salman Rushdie

faith without doubt is addiction

W. H. Auden

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Robert Pattinson

I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

Sandra Cisneros

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

Roseanne Barr

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Yusef Komunyakaa

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Winona LaDuke

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Yehuda Berg

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Our addiction to oil is a matter of national security concern.

Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Parents get tired, disgusted and depressed. They lose faith in 'cures' and grow wary of treatments.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

If there is a silver lining in this awful cloud, it's that it's reminded Americans how vulnerable we are and why we have to end our dangerous addiction to foreign oil.

Linda Cardellini

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

I'm not going to kid you that if you walk into the jungle, you won't find a single poppy. But it would only be one of a few plants grown by an addict for personal consumption. Commercial cultivation is over.

I'm addicted to this stuff, and it's really a triumph when you're the first person to share with your friends.

Stuart Appleby

I'm trying to play well all the time. I think that's an addictive thing you want to get into and you keep going and keep playing until it gets out of tune.

The consequences aren't there as much for the kids as they are for the adults. Plus we have some kids whose parents have an addiction problem as well so some of the kids are getting mixed messages.

Jackson Pollock

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

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.

Liev Schreiber

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

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 ...

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.