Alcoholism Quotes

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost

Work, Worst, Disease

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

Virtue, Headache, Precede

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee

Women, Men, Black

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil

Poison, Skepticism, Soil

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
Conan O'Brien

Found, Talking, Party

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Steven Soderbergh

Lying, Recovering

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen

Work, Business, Worst

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
Vance Havner

Tired, Year, Sickness

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
Liza Minnelli

Help, Mean, Learned

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.
Liza Minnelli

Help, Mean, Learned

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras

Nature, Woman, Serious

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Mercedes McCambridge

Disease, Zillions

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Alex Campbell

Human, Terrible, Advent

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
Jack Dee

Depression, Problem, Realize

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
Kristin Davis

Family, Everybody, Run

My mother is still battling alcoholism.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Mother, Battling

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
Christopher Atkins

Angry, Person, Due

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds

Society, Die, Books

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
William Griffith Wilson

God, Spiritual, Daily

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
Nancy McKeon

Great, Job, Before

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.
Denise Juneau

School, Live, Children

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.
Stephen Bennett

Help, Addiction, Leave

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.
Richard Kiel

Family, God, Blessed

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