Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“In my right and sober mind, it was time to go into heavy battle and conquer the mind monsters that still held… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met… — Pax Prentiss Copy Share Image
It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
In the year and a half that I've been sober, in the comfort of married life, Vogue and I have welcomed our… — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
“We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I needed to grow up, but growing up meant letting go of who I’d been for the past seven years. The last… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing… — Cesar Romero Copy Share Image
I've been trying to stay sober for 22 years. Some days are bad and some days are great. I get up every… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
My big thing is to get onstage sober. Whatever happens from there happens. But you get onstage drunk and it's not going… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is… — Peter Laughner Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Supposedly has been on a two-day bender, and today is the first day the guy has been sober. So whatever went down… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise;… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed… — William James Copy Share Image
Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all,… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
For any addict, when you get sober, life becomes more challenging, in some ways, because all of your problems become very clear… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Aimee saw more of the world before her first birthday than most people do in a lifetime. I just wish I’d been… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Having all those demons makes it interesting, for me. Coming back now and being completely sober is okay, but I do like… — Drea de Matteo Copy Share Image
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one… — Richard Haynes Copy Share Image
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
