Sobriety Quotes - Page 7

• Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

  Gene Weingarten

  Found, Hart

  "Gene Weingarten: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2016.

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

  Anthony Boucher

  Long, Masters, Terror

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• Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.

  Bucky Sinister

  Book, Drinking, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

  Moby

  Morning, Drinking, Taken

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Humility, Mind, Body

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• I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

  Rob Lowe

  Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  Anthony Daniels

  Memories, Past, Views

  "Selective Memory". www.city-journal.org. July 6, 2004.

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• The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, People

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.387

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• Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.19

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• The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

  Irving Stone

  Girl, Wall, Light

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

  Frederick Exley

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

  Wes Fesler

  Jobs, Hammers, Temperance

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• I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

  Matthew Perry

  Fun, Recovery, Focus

  "Matthew Perry: the one where Chandler writes a West End play" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

  Chris Prentiss

  Inspirational, Book, Cures

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.129, BookBaby

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• I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

  Mary Docter

  Inspirational, Want, Crash

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• Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Capacity, Concern

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• Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct

  Polycarp

  Names, May, Woe

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• In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.

  Anne Robinson

  Daughter, Running, Drinking

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• Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Honesty, Greed, Virtue

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