Sober Quotes - Page 13

• There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

  Tara Stiles

  Focus, Lessons, Moments

  Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony

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• I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hangover, Thinking, Black

  Source: bukowski.net

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• I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.

  Cara Santana

  Grateful, Blessed, Recovery

  "Actor and Entrepreneur Cara Santana On being inspired by daily life, overcoming addiction, and taking risks". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you're sober it's easier to stay in line with your train of thought. There's a lot more you're thinking about that you want to discuss, and there are a lot more memories that you're dealing with that you had pent up inside of you for so long because you had been drinking all of those years.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Memories, Drinking, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't exactly make for sexual ecstasy! There's always been a difference between pleasure and scoring.

  Michael Kimmel

  Beer, Differences, People

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.

  Gonjasufi

  Yoga, Break, Clear

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

  Bradford Cox

  Drinking, Air, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Stupid, Cities, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Jobs, Kissing, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

  Bucky Sinister

  Believe, Needs, Natural

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?

  Lee Remick

  Looks, Way, Drink

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  'Last Poems' (1922) no. 10

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• Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

  Christopher Plummer

  Art, Fun, Suffering

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

  James Thurber

  Writing, Years, Mets

  Quoted in NeilT Jones (ed) A Book of Days for the Literary Year (1984).

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• I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

  Fergie

  Father, Wine, Thinking

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  Alexander Pope

  Farewell, Night, Luxury

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Broken

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Spring, Fighting, Feet

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  William James

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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• I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

  Malachy McCourt

  Grateful, Drink

  Source: bigthink.com

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• No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Emotional, Political

  Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.144

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• Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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