Sober Quotes - Page 10

• Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Wine, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press

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• I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor.

  Dennis Hopper

  Drinking, Moving, Beer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

  A. E. Housman

  Morning, Lying, Heart

  Last Poems (1922) no. 10

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• I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

  Janice Dickinson

  Sober Up, Wish, Age

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• Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

  James Joyce

  Ireland

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1099, e-artnow

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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• A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Rude, Gentleman

  "Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

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• Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Like Love, Want

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Evil, Imbalance, Way

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

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• Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Redneck, Rights, Drunk

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• If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Past, Looks

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

  Macklemore

  Creative, Age, Use

  "Does Macklemore Really Thrift Shop?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. July 4, 2013.

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.

  Tom Arnold

  Crazy, Community, Alcohol

  Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Dry, Vote

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.158, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

  A. J. McLean

  Daughter, Stress, Inspiration

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• The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

  Corey Taylor

  Years, Firsts, Weak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

  Amy Poehler

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

  Monica Crowley

  People, Decision, President

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• Half as sober as a judge.

  Charles Lamb

  Judging, Half

  Charles Lamb (2013). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.407, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Boys, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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