But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.” — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must… — William Griffith Wilson Copy Share Image
“I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue… — Martin E.P. Seligman Copy Share Image
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“In the seventy-six years since AA was created, 12-step programs have expanded to include over three hundred different organizations, focusing on such… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, Was she thinking about me when she was drinking? Did any of them ever think about me when they… — Kenny Porpora 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
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk. [Mexico City concert, June 2011]” — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?” — Catherine Lockwood Copy Share Image
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.” — Hideo Azuma Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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