Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas R. Insel

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

Simon Sinek

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

Simon Pegg

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

Tommy Rettig

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Thomas Szasz

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Russell Peters

This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.

Stella Adler

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Rosario Dawson

You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

Ray Charles

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Nolan Bushnell

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Michael Fassbender

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Michael Steinhardt

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Padgett Powell

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is an addiction.

Marianne Williamson

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Mason Cooley

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Lorna Luft

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn't work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don't have the social or vocational skills to help them cope and find a new life.

Michael Irvin

More important to me is to help my friends and help my brother and to remove this drug addiction spirit out of my family.

She's relaxing more. She laid off Healthy Addiction and pounced.

Sexual addiction is the fastest-growing addiction in the United States. It's based in part on the fact that obtaining sexual literature, pornography, is so convenient today. It's more readily available. It is there at the click of a finger.

Should PROMETA prove to be as effective within the Pierce County Alliance drug offender population as it appears to be, the State will consider its effectiveness for use in treatment so that stimulant dependent individuals in Washington will be able to benefit from this therapy. Methamphetamine addiction is a serious issue and has ravaged Pierce County and is escalating throughout the state. Washington is pleased to join the States of Louisiana, Idaho, and Indiana in conducting accelerated commercial pilots of PROMETA.

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.

Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Hillary Clinton

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

Francis Chan

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

Fran Lebowitz

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Jean Cocteau

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Gene Tierney

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Fergie

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.