Giving Up Alcohol Quotes

#1. The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.

Chelsea Handler

#2. Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Margaret Halsey

#3. Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

Victoria Moran

#4. I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Truman Capote

#5. Everything is sorrow for the wise.

Patanjali

#6. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

Oswald Chambers

#7. My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true

William Braithwaite

#8. Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.

George Carlin

#9. Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

Alice Cooper

#10. Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

Gayle Forman

#11. I realize that i've seen French mothers and nannies pausing exactly this little bit before tending to their babies during the day. It hadn't occurred to me that this was deliberate or that it was at all significant.

Pamela Druckerman

#12. My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy

William Carlos Williams

#13. What we're in is a vacuum.

Henning Mankell

#14. The naked truth is anything but naked. But it will be soon enough, if I keep giving it alcohol.

Jarod Kintz

#15. I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#16. Love was an agony beyond compare

Nalini Singh

#17. There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel

Ice Cube

#18. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Gordon Liddy

#19. Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

Cassandra Clare

#20. California: The west coast of Iowa.

Joan Didion

#21. The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking

Liz Hemingway

#22. ...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.

Kathleen Glasgow

#23. The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#24. I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Stanley Kubrick

#25. I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all

Meir Kahane

#26. I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant ... if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

Chelsea Handler

#27. 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?'

Kathleen Madigan

#28. I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.

Method Man

#29. Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.

Nancy Horan

#30. The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me ... since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.

Alice James