Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

That would make addiction more inheritable than diseases we commonly think of as genetic, such as adult onset diabetes or common hypertension.

most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions - designed to help modify the patient's thinking, expectancies and behaviors, and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors.

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

Pam Bondi

We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it's also a crime.

Carl Pope

Those leaders who have stood strong to keep Arctic drilling out of the budget must continue to hold the line. It?s time for Congress to put this bad idea to rest once and for all and focus instead breaking our oil addiction with clean energy solutions.

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.

We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city.

Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in general. In some cases, the addiction has become so bad that they can't perform sexually without pornographic stimulus.

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

I have a thing about duck, ... It's a culinary addiction -- when we eat out, my 'I'll have the duck' is so commonplace that my wife doesn't even bother to roll her eyes anymore.

Going from Middle Eastern oil to coal and nukes to solve our addiction is like going from one hard-core drug to another.

Rupert Everett

He carries these pictures in his mind of the hideous things he has seen, and he can't get them out of his head. His drug addiction comes from that.

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

David Suzuki

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

Edith Piaf

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Daron Malakian

When we first started the band here in LA, Janes Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and wed get put into that category even though we didnt fit. Its funny that now theres bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing thats kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what were doing.

Bill Moyers

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Chelsea Handler

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Janice Dickinson

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Ben Nicholson

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

Barbara de Angelis

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

Brendan Behan

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

Jane Fonda

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

We've seen an acknowledgement that they do have an addiction to spending. That's the first step to recovery.

Bonnie Raitt

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

Dennis Miller

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Bertrand Russell

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Craig David

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.