Using excuses for the predicament you’re in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.
– Alexandra Sobetsky
Related Quotes:
- If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. – Philip K
- Situation after situation, shape your attitude! Situation after situation change your character! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her. – Tatjana Soli
- Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy-”just a boy. – Shannon A Thompson
- I’m not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model. – Lori Lesko
- One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real. – Rebecca McNutt
- Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly. – Melissa Jo Peltier
- She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he’d met her. – Elle Kennedy
- But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius. – Truman Capote
- Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you. – Billy Graham
- He who fears alcohol MUST also fear ANGER, for anger is more powerful and dangerous than the alcohol. – Oppong Amankwaa
- Religion is a non-alcoholic man’s alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man’s religion. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world. – Charles Bowden
- To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug. – JC Reed
- Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug. – Gayle Forman
- In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress. – Cameron Conaway
- I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay – Jeet Thayil
- I didn’t want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body. – David Millar
- Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses. – Farshad Asl
- Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don’t need excuses. – Jamie Anne Richardson
- You don’t need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost! – Israelmore Ayivor
- A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream. – Orrin Woodward
- I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ???, it’s because I have one. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty. – Bill Jensen
- Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty. – Bill Jensen
- The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them. – Carl Henegan
- Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement. – Harold V Hall
- Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life-. – Abdulazeez Henry Musa
- Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. – John Updike
- Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace? – Sarah Ruhl
- Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication – Jonathan Gottschall
- Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. – CG Jung
- It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results. – Praveen Chenna
- Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength. – Human Angels
- Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate. – Debasish Mridha
- Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they’re wrong – it is a sign of healing. – Louise Suzanne Boyd
- Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion. – Jim George
- I’m not a slave, man. I just gotta sign out, say where I’m going, what time I’ll be back and then I gotta sign back in. – Ben H Winters
- …it…planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs. – Alexandra Zapruder
- All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. – Peter Grdenfors