Addiction Doesn't Discriminate Quotes & Sayings

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted. — Paul Goodman

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews. — Bruce Forsyth

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate. — Bob Dole

Affluence means influence. — Jack London

There is something poignantly pathetic in the picture of this valiant fighter - this arrogant ja-sager - this foe of men, gods and devils - being nursed and coddled like a little child. His old fierce pride and courage disappeared and he became docile and gentle. "You and I, my sister - we are happy!" he would say, and then his hand would slip out from his coverings and clasp that of the tender and faithful Lisbeth. Once she mentioned Wagner to him. "Den habe ich sehr geliebt!" he said. All his old fighting spirit was gone. He remembered only the glad days and the dreams of his youth. — H.L. Mencken

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example ... — James Woods

Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak, to actually state their case, is perverse - because I want to hear the Devil speak. I like the idea that a point of view can be made by the dark side. — Clive Barker

It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are. — Iyanla Vanzant

Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time. — Ilona Andrews

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue. — Paulo Coelho

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. — Gore Vidal

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!' — Alex Meraz

This moment and every moment lasts forever. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.

But it was a start - and that was all that mattered. — Cole Gibsen