Alcoholics Quotes - Page 5

• If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

  Whitey Herzog

  Cubs, Ifs

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• Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wine, Opinion, Odd

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

  Michael Koryta

  Thinking, Ideas, Curiosity

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

  Chris Prentiss

  Stress, Believe, Giving

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.109, BookBaby

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• A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.

  Ian Wooldridge

  Funny, Country, Believe

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• You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

  Chris Prentiss

  Forever, Substance, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.115, BookBaby

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• I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

  Gail Carriger

  Book, Differences, Needs

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• I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

  Katie Taylor

  Ibiza, Rage, Lad

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Single Mom, Simple, Air

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• I want what I want when I want it.

  Eric Cantor

  Want, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Recovery

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• A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.

  Craig Ferguson

  Believe, College, Numbers

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• Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

  Milton Friedman

  Drug, Tragedy, Use

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• I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Writing, Wonder

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• Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

  W. C. Fields

  Greatness, Rumor, Use

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.143, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

  Chester Bennington

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

  Jackie Gleason

  Differences, Meetings, Drunkards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

  Catherine DeVrye

  Motivation, Recovery, Path

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• When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sides, Acid, Side Effects

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.

  Gary Chapman

  Thinking, Long, Unhappy

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

  Malachy McCourt

  Cigarette, Used, Philanderer

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

  Malachy McCourt

  Healing, Duty, Obligation

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Excuse, Said

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

  John L. Casti

  Creating, Trying, Bars

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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