Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Thomas

It's referred to as a positive addiction in that case because the result is that it makes you do something that's good for your body as long as you don't become obsessive with it. If you get obsessive, then it's not positive, but if you get desire to want exercise on a regular basis, and you keep it sane, then that's very positive.

Paul Burke

Anyone truly homeless and not a street person through drug and alcohol addiction should be given help.

Brad Johnson

The objective of the Drug Court is really to reduce the number of kids placed out of home -- to cure them of drug addiction in an effort to reduce their delinquency ... and prevent them from being locked up or sent to a placement facility.

It's such a novel way of treating an addiction because it's not targeting any part of the brain. It's targeting the molecule itself.

That 'from addiction to recovery' tag line is really big.

They are here because they have an addiction that they need help with. We treat them with dignity.

Andy Williams

It was like an addiction ... I wanted to be wealthy,

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.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

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.

Barbara de Angelis

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

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.

Martin Amis

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Martin Amis

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

Paulo Coelho

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

Pope Francis

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

Taylor Swift

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday.

Keith Miller

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

Josh Billings

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

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

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.