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Quotes About Addiction

it would explain why extreme partisans are so stubborn, closed-minded, and committed to beliefs that often seem bizarre or paranoid. Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.
~ Jonathan Haidt
El partidismo extremo puede ser literalmente adictivo.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Then this other guy, the thirteenth guy, comes crashing right into me. Even with all that was going on I thought, Drug addict. He was pale and sweaty, stank like raw sewage, and had a glazed bug-eyed stare. Sick bastard even tried to bite me, but
~ Jonathan Maberry
Three things," I told her. "First, there's no such thing as too much coffee. Second, caffeine has nothing to do with my jitters. And third, there's no such thing as too much coffee.
~ Jonathan Maberry
The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people.
~ Jonathan Maberry
It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you
~ Eminem
I never lie ? I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships.
~ Emma Forrest
Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.
~ Emma Forrest
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.
~ Emma Forrest
Rule number one: caffeine is your new best friend. Liquid optimism.
~ Emma McLaughlin
I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.
~ Emma Roberts
I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
~ Emma Thompson
Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio
~ Emmanuel Carrère
Yoluna ba?l?y?m sanki ben misali nikotin Tanr?sal bi etki belli, sonsuza daim, Promilim fani ama de?il sevgi dahil, ?eytan beni ar?yorken kim ?imdi katil ?
~ Emsnightmare
Non sono mica tanto diversi, il jazz e il punk, si diceva alle volte. Pensaci, c'è la stessa emarginazione, dentro, la stessa rabbia. E c'è l'eroina dietro a tutti e due.
~ Enrico Brizzi
Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.
~ Eric Blehm
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
~ Eric Cantona
Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.
~ Bee Wilson
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
~ Bela Lugosi
If addiction is a disease, how do you first catch it? I mean, if you've never tried a single sodding drug in the first place, how could you become addicted? You couldn't. It wouldn't be possible. You are making a choice that first time. You are volunteering for the addiction. You know it's wrong and self-destructive but you do it anyway.
~ Belinda Jones
Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather.
~ Ben Dolnick
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
~ Benjamin Franklin