All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades our entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
“One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the… — Sky Masterson Copy Share Image
Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach… — Chris Ramsey Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to… — James Pickles Copy Share Image
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.”… — Kim Severson Copy Share Image
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another.… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest mistakes a man can make is to work too goddamned much. First you drank so much it got… — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
“How I ran my home, I don’t know. I went on, realizing what I was becoming, hating myself for it, bitter, blaming… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy) Addiction - When you can give… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a… — Aaron Spelling Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“As in other cultures, alcohol acts as a social lubricant for Swedes. One of the social and psychological functions of drinking in… — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
“If your problem is being chronically starved of social bonds, then part of the solution is to bond with the heroin itself… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
