Sobriety Quotes - Page 5

• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Christian, Drinking

  Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

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• Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

  David Brooks

  Self, People, Lists

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

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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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• The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Democrat

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped change other people's lives. With my sobriety and what I went through. I don't do a whole bunch of songs, that from start to end talk about one particular thing. That's a missing puzzle.

  Shane Bunting

  Song, Night, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Strong, Thinking

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• I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hate, Feelings, Doe

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.181, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

  Edie Falco

  Actors, Better Person, Made

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• Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

  Diogenes

  Giving, Comfort, Ornaments

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• There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Order

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

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

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Addiction, World, Today

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.10, Random House

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• Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

  Jeremy Collier

  Giving, Satisfaction, Faces

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.118

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• The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Wine, People

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.439, Harriman House Limited

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• Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

  Michelle Tea

  Kissing, Talking, Drunk

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• Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Power, People

  Carlos Castaneda (2017). “The Fire From Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".

  Charles Darwin

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Knack, Like Me

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.607, Xist Publishing

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• Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

  Donal Henahan

  Piano, Missing, Feelings

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• Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

  Richard Matheson

  Jagged Edge, Edges

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Religion, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.

  William Magee

  War, Liberty, Alternatives

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• A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

  Marya Mannes

  Musical, Passionate, Orchestra

  Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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• If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Men, Voting

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