Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

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.

Mark Twain

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Sophie Anderton

Smoking is hardest to give up because it's legal. I smoke because I'm addicted - nicotine should be a Class A drug.

Barbara de Angelis

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

Martin Amis

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Pope Francis

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

Keith Miller

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Pauline Kael

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

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.

Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Jonathan Lethem

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

John McCain

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

John Oliver

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

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.

Gavin Rossdale

I am really addicted to music.

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.

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.

John Mayer

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

It's a stressful job to be in. You're always looking for work, ... Once you're a superstar, if you started smoking when you were a struggling actor, it's very hard to quit. It's a highly addictive product.

Janet Reno

This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner, ... Not only did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human life.