Sober Quotes - Page 7

• Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Law, Done

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• I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Couple, Beer, Giving

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• An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honest, Honest Man

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.160

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• Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

  William Tyndale

  Wise, Jesus, Men

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• When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Responsibility, Neighbor, Limitation

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• My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Men, Used

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.36, Univ of California Press

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• In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Italian, Yankees, Rich Or Poor

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• He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

  Saadi

  Wine, Night, Judgement

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Christian, Cutting, Reality

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• Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.

  Francoise Mouly

  Art, Clever, Emotional

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

  Jim Goad

  Running, Stars, Taken

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

  Bucky Sinister

  Sorry, Play, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

  Greg Behrendt

  Change, People, Mind

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel.

  Craig Ferguson

  Party, Talking, Awkward

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• There's been times when I have actually had sex indoors. And then you kind of sober up a little when it's over. I become like a bartender at 2 AM. OK, people, let's move it out! Yeah, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sex, Moving, Home

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• If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Angel, Demon, Tutor

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1843). “Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843”, p.219

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• For any addict, when you get sober, life becomes more challenging, in some ways, because all of your problems become very clear and you have to deal with your pain. You can't just drink and forget about it and pretend it doesn't exist. You have to actually face it, head on.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Pain, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

  Scott Weiland

  Years, Drug, Done

  Source: www.heretodaygonetohell.com

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• Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

  Robert Menzies

  Thinking, Class, People

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• A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Fashion, Character, Men

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• I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Degrees, Infinite

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

  Willie Dixon

  Beautiful, Boys, Drunk

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• Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Moon, Men

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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