Stop Drinking Quotes - Page 2

• Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

  Brigham Young

  Strong, Drinking, Thinking

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

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• I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

  Cate Blanchett

  Drinking, Thinking, Water

  "Cate Blanchett on Philanthropy and Beauty". Interview with Maureen Choi, www.marieclaire.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

  Matthew Perry

  Drinking, Yes I Can, Proud

  "Matthew Perry Comes Clean", abcnews.go.com.

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• Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's wife might wish her husband would stop drinking...On examination of her beliefs, she may discover she was frightened of not achieving her own goals and actually encouraged the alcoholism so she would not have to face her own failure.

  Seth Roberts

  Husband, Drinking, Ideas

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• I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.

  Topher Grace

  Weed, Party, Drinking

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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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• Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Drinking, Smoking, Nerves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.

  Alma Katsu

  Running, Drinking, Gambling

  Alma Katsu (2011). “The Taker”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when usually people give you like this window of success time.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Drinking, Journey, Careers

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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