Quotes & Sayings About Maintaining Sobriety

Simply having children does not make mothers. — John G. Shedd

Holding hands is like giving someone a mini-hug. — Cassia Leo

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. — Mary McCarthy

I've gone cold turkey. Completely. I haven't even jerked off. Not once. In nine frigging days. I think the buildup of semen is starting to affect my brain. Like sugar to a diabetic. — Emma Chase

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place. — Jeanette Winterson

Some adopted new strategies for survival; they went dormant. Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms; time rendered this dust defective. It brought only disease and misery; but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good. — Greg Bear

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane! — Eminem

I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people. — Alexander McCall Smith

The truck went on its way in the night and Gedaleh shouted, laughing, If not this way, how? And if not now, when? — Primo Levi

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows. — Adam Brody

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash. — Cynthia Hand

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive — Bell Hooks

But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you're
sharing a reality that doesn't exist. — Chuck Klosterman

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig Von Mises