Addiction Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business. ”
– Franklin P. Jones

“I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.”
– Gene Tierney

“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
– George A. Sheehan

“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.”
– George Andrews

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
– George Carlin

“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
– George Sheehan

“When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America’s addiction to oil. You make the connection.”
– Gwen Ifill

“Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.”
– James Buchan

“People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.”
– James Taylor

“The worst thing about addiction is that you spend all day thinking about how to stop thinking about it.”
– James Yager

“I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.”
– Jamie Lee Curtis

“I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.”
– Jane Fonda

“I’m a former bulimic myself and it’s a horrible, horrible addiction.”
– Janice Dickinson

“The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.”
– Jay Inslee

“We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.”
– Jay Inslee

“I love making people laugh. It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.”
– Jay Roach

“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”
– Jean Cocteau

“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Some people are addicts. If they don’t act, they don’t exist.”
– Jeanne Moreau

“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”
– Jeffrey Michael

“Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.”
– Jim Costa

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”
– Jim Morrison

“As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.”
– Jim Ramstad

“It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation’s number one public health problem.”
– Jim Ramstad

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
– John Grisham

“Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
– John Hardwick

“I have the obsessiveness of someone who’s a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.”
– John Mayer

“Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form … you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.”
– John O’Donohue

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