The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship. I get that. And I’ve certainly done that. I’ve mistaken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be… — Earl Chinnici Copy Share Image
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about… — Anthony Keidis Copy Share Image
I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse.… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a person yearn for more.… — Shelena Shorts Copy Share Image
It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“There is little research being done on the neurological basis of porn addiction. In part this is because it is not seen… — William M. Struthers Copy Share Image
“We learned a new way to consume each other, without the need for any drug or conflict. We smothered each other in… — Kenya Wright Copy Share Image
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction.… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everybody's addicted to something. Everybody's got to grip onto something even if it's just to feel the response of a pill maybe… — James Meroow Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“A successful alone-time period means letting go of communication addiction. During alone time, give up instant messages, phone calls, e-mail, and meetings.… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman, 37 Signals Copy Share Image
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to,… — Mark Boone Junior Copy Share Image
“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation?… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
![“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a62/paul-auster-351_addiction_t-he-only-luxury-he-allows-himself-is-bu_2280053.jpg)
