The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in… — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
“I'd much rather spend all day on the Santa Monica pier playing Asteroids than delve into the murk and analyze myself. And… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25%… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
“Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every… — William Griffith Wilson Copy Share Image
I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had… — Jim Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
“He panted over me, winded by his own absurd lecture. The stench of his alcoholic breath stung my nose. Again I didn’t… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was… — Melissa Febos 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
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
“We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives.… — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
“One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The next, I'm one who has swallowed liquor. I'm… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“In addition to the smells of mince and pumpkin pies, the Sage and onions of turkey stuffing, another aroma floated in the… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly,… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want, so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk, It’s… — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
![“My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any…” quote by Josh McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/josh-mcdowell-4194_alcohol_my-father-s-life-was-changed-right-befor_1487090.png)
