Quotes About Addiction

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

I watched the needle take another man.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money