Alcoholics Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Government, Alcohol, Adults

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• The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Christian, Wine, Beer

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• Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Play

  "Frankie Boyle Live", 2008.

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

  Catherine DeVrye

  Motivation, Recovery, Path

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• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,  where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

  Grace Kelly

  People, Suffering, Towns

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• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhism, Years, Wife

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• I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kids, Want, Rage

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

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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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• Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Alcohol

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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• We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Sick, Bird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.235, Canongate Books

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• I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Scott Stapp

  Doubt, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cia

  "Creed's Scott Stapp Reveals He's Homeless in Jarring New Video" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 26, 2014.

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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