Addiction Quotes

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I was a functional addict.

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.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

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.

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

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.

You are in recovery if you say you are.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.