His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances.… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and… — David Feherty Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For the Christian church… to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other… — Rum Copy Share Image
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It was just boring, is all. I knew better than to think there was going to be booze after all this time,… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
Alcohol may comfort a man until he is sober, but doesnt fill his psychological gaps; it only replaces the lack of God… — Marcia Persaud Copy Share Image
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
“Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that… — Jess C. Scott 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
“When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says;… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you're only having fun while you're high or drunk & that's when you're less conscious of your life. Then your life… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary.… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton 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
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
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
“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
Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it.… — Harvey Martin Copy Share Image
I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
