Quotes About Sobriety

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.

The door to Jackson's opens and a man staggers out. He crab-walks away from them, along the pavement until he hits a lamp post. He clings to it, waiting until his legs agree to listen to orders. Confident he has reached an entente cordiale with his knees, he straightens up, watching his rebel legs to see if the truce holds. It does, but only for standing. The moment he attempts a step he is swept around the corner like a trawlerman thrown from a deck in a storm.

they have lived. For example, Jews have nearly always been better educated; Jewish family life has usually been more stable; Jews aided one another more than their non-Jewish neighbors aided each other; and Jewish men have been less likely to become drunk, beat their wives, or abandon their children. As a result of these factors, the quality of life of the average Jew, no matter how poor, was higher than that of a comparable non-Jew in the same society (see

If ye can stand up, you're not drunk.

I don't drink.

When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.

I don't drink at all.

I don't drink no more.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.

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

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I'm not usually a drinker.

There was a time in my life when I drank. I wasn't the best me when I was a drinker.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

I've not stopped drinking, I'm not a born again one of them, we just don't have booze in the house.