Sober Quotes - Page 12

• Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

  Jack Newfield

  Judgment, Controversial, Unfinished

  4 Copy quote

• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Glasses, Ideas

  18 Copy quote

• I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

  Joe Perry

  Real, Night, Screw Ups

  11 Copy quote

• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

  Samuel Smiles

  Law, Idle, Industrious

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.5, The Floating Press

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Dance, Girl, Dancing

  4 Copy quote

• I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

  Kingsley Amis

  Real, Men, Drunk

  15 Copy quote

• If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Past, Looks

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  Alexander Pope

  Farewell, Night, Luxury

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Bears, Considerate

  John Tillotson (1757). “The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: In Twelve Volumes, Containing 254 Sermons and Discourses on Several Occassions; Together with the Rule of Faith; Prayers Composed by Him for His Own Life; a Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament; and a Form of Prayer Composed by Him for the Use of King William”, p.48

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

  Mats Sundin

  Drunk, Faster, Harder

  4 Copy quote

• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Book, Philosophical, Reflection

  4 Copy quote

• At 3 o'clock in the morning on tour when you're sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you're drunk in a bar or in a nightclub. But having said that, 9 in the morning on tour sober is immeasurably better than 9 a.m. on tour when you're hung over and feeling like death.

  Moby

  Morning, Fun, Drunk

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wrestling, Color, Painting

  12 Copy quote

• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

  Hannah More

  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Writing, Black

  Source: www.nola.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
  Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

  John William Fletcher

  Running, Drinking, Tonight

  7 Copy quote

• Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Drinking, Sober Up, Views

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

  Amy Poehler

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

  4 Copy quote

• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

  Corey Taylor

  Years, Firsts, Weak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

  A. J. McLean

  Daughter, Stress, Inspiration

  20 Copy quote

• The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Dry, Vote

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.158, Rowman & Littlefield

  7 Copy quote

  Show source