I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs.… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I am always baffled when people say to me, “I don’t like beer,” for they might just as easily say “I don’t… — Charles W. Bamforth Copy Share Image
Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money.… — Barry White Copy Share Image
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I don't approve of anyone smoking cigarettes, most of all, my daughter. I don't smoke, that's just an accessory. She smoked that… — Madonna Copy Share Image
“He drank no hard liquor but loved wine, taking perhaps three glasses a day.42 He did not smoke. When he received gifts… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“I’m trying to maintain that perfect alcohol equilibrium between euphoria and dulled senses—I call it dullphoria. My personal dullphoria rule, as long… — Jason Rose Copy Share Image
I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“When I introduce myself as a card-carrying Libertarian, more often than not I get the same old response: 'Oh, you're the people… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“SHAME AS THE CORE AND FUEL OF ALL ADDICTION Neurotic shame is the root and fuel of all compulsive/addictive behaviors. My general… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Gripping the microphone, my eyes half closed under the lights, I think of my 413 days without alcohol. And I think of… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“the government’s drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand,… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
You've got guys on freeways with motorbikes with no helmets on, you can't drink until you're 21 and we wonder why so… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
“Don’t look to wine for your stimulation. That leads only in the direction of ruin. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Let… — John Crowder Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can quit drinking one of these days. They all say that, don't they?" "It takes about three years." "Three years?"… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“Oh boy. Too drunk to hold on to a whiskey and Coke and the word "pretty." That's not a combination with a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Many people fear that decriminalization and the controlled dispensing of drugs will lead to widespread substance use among people who are now… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It is now known that many tobacco companies were deliberately adding chemicals to tobacco in order to make then even more addictive.… — Jason Vale Copy Share Image
When, you know, when Nic became addicted, I was completely uneducated, and basically everything I assumed at the time turned out to… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
O wine-bearer brighten my cup with the wine---O minstrel say good fortune is now mine---The face of my Beloved is reflected in… — Hafez Copy Share Image
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a… — Steve-O Copy Share Image