Alcohol Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcohol Bad days Craving Craving Bad Desire Hard Hard day Hard Day's Work Hard days Logic Logic Craving Long Needs Tv Alcohol Tvs
“The nearest analogy to the addictive power of television and the transformation of values that is wrought in the life of the heavy user… — Terrance McKenna Copy Share Image
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“I can see myself acquiring bad habits from living here. My little house is equipped with a TV, and I've watched a lot this… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“This explains context-dependent craving in addiction.93 Suppose an alcoholic has been clean and sober for years. Return him to where the alcohol consumption used… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“People spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick. — T. J. MacGregor Copy Share Image
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I… — Tyson Beckford Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image