Sober Quotes - Page 20

• If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Personality, Maps

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

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• I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

  John Mayer

  Addiction, Recovering, Addict

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• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  Ted Nugent

  Ponytails, Clean, Remains

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• Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Looks, Serious, Look At Me

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

  Moby

  Long, Sobriety, Alcohol

  Source: thequietus.com

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• After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.

  Marc Cooper

  Winning, Reality, Bottles

  "It’s 3 a.m. and Hillary’s Dreaming" by Marc Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Errors, Law

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

  Rumi

  Essence, Drunk, Magic

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• I stayed sober for this?

  George R. R. Martin

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• His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Past, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Markheim, Jekyll And The Merry Men”, p.242, Canongate Books

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• Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Drunk, Easy, Easy To Get

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.393, Open Road Media

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• On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

  Umberto Eco

  Latin, Italian, Reflection

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

  John Green

  Mean, Drunk, Guy

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Cookies, Drivers

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• I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Years, Ill, Accounts

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• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Devil, Roaring

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• I met with a bad bout after the trial was over, and while the trial was on I habit of stopping by the liquor store and buying a bottle of wine every night. Just to forget the days courtroom proceedings. Then the next morning I'd get up, go to court again and do it all over again. Well, by 1985, I was a fall down, low bottom drunk. An alcoholic. And in 1989, I finally got sober. And I found the rooms of a 12 Step Recovery Program. And I diligently worked those 12 Steps, and I have changed my life dramatically. I'm happily married. I converted to Christianity.

  Harry Reems

  Morning, Fall, Wine

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  God, Speak, Found

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• I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Care, Clean, Big Sleep

  The Big Sleep (1939) ch. 1

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bible, Devil, Roaring

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

  Craig Ferguson

  Drunk, Acting

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• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

  George Saunders

  War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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• I was just staying home and getting stoned and drinking. It was a pretty rough period. I think that's kind of the whole theme of Indestructible Machine, how when you have social anxiety, you can sort of convince yourself that you've gotten over it by drinking a bottle of whiskey, but once you sober up you're still terrified of everything. Hence you're treating your body like it will never die. I think I have gotten better, just from touring so much, but I still definitely have the skittish nature.

  Lydia Loveless

  Drinking, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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