Sober Quotes - Page 2

• Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drunk, Different, Bus

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Discovery

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  You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

  Dean Martin

  Clever, Lying, Humorous

  In Paul Dickson Official Rules (1978) p. 112

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• Write drunk; edit sober.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

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• Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Drinking, Food

  Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

  Vaclav Havel

  Perseverance, Different, Each Day

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", p. 111, 1990.

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• It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

  Hannah More

  Hard Work, People, Tasks

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

  Peter De Vries

  Writing, Discipline, Drunk

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

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• Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts

  Wiz Khalifa

  Drunk, Never Forget, Forget

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• I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

  Nelson Mandela

  Assessment, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Inspirational, Couple, Moving

  "Comeback Kid Daniel Baldwin Still Waiting for Lindsay Lohan to Call, Turned Down 'DWTS'" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

  Tracey Emin

  Life, Mistake, Drunk

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• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Cheer Up, Army

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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• I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

  Courtney Love

  Fun, Caring, Years

  "Courtney Love ordered to drug treatment". The Associated Press, www.today.com. August 19, 2005.

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• People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

  Tom Arnold

  Inspirational, Hurt, Commitment

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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