Alcohol Quotes - Page 39

• the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

  Rebecca West

  Drinking, Addiction, Rewards

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

  Catherine the Great

  Stronger, Want, Architecture

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• The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Men, Gambling

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

  Betty Ford

  Food, Cooking, May

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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• 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.

  Craig David

  Addiction, Drug, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.

  Derek Sanderson

  Father, Talking, Years

  "Q&A: 10 Questions With Hockey Legend Derek Sanderson". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight ", www.cbc.ca. October 27, 2012.

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• I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

  Heath Ledger

  Art, Thinking, Drug

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

  Heath Ledger

  Drug, Inspire, Tools

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• It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Drinking

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• [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

  Queen Victoria

  Drinking, Practice, Abstinence

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• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  Beatrice Webb

  Drinking, Lines, Force

  1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving Up, Self, Cigarette

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• Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Imagination, Sparks, Entertainment

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• Whoever I had become had to die.

  Craig Ferguson

  Drinking, Dies

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  Drinking, House, Grew Up

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• Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Teenage, Kids, Beer

  "'Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Drinking, Comforting, May

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

  Mick Jagger

  Taken, Marijuana, Years

  Interview with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Years

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

  Claudia Shear

  Choices, Drug, Nadir

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• When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

  African Spir

  War, Men, Humanity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Drinking, Self

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• Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex!

  Brenda Song

  Sex

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• I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mean, Drug, Poppies

  "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.

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