Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has… — Mike Doughty Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“I was starting to understand that the more you talked about something the less it hurt, each telling deflating it a little… — Wendy Blackburn Copy Share Image
I was a huge ER addict. And recently, when I can't sleep, I've been watching MASH. I don't know if that counts… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Then I realized God chose me, baggage and all. God chose a drug addict, a kid who had chosen to sleep on… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there once was a girl with a drug addict mom and and dad she hardly knew. She grew… — Bailey Renee Copy Share Image
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear,… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
“I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour. We lived recklessly in a… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I don't feel drugs should be illegal. I don't think people should take drugs every day, but I don't see any difference… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a medical point of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“John G. turns on him, hands on hips, hair caked with snow. 'Hey, buddy, let me tell you something. Drugs are the… — Peter Blauner Copy Share Image
![“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.” quote by Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00c/eugene-h-peterson-1745_addict_pity-is-one-of-the-noblest-emotions-avai_2020581.jpg)
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