I Stop Drinking Quotes

#1. Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.

Gregory Maguire

#2. When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jimmy Breslin

#3. I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

Richard Pryor

#4. Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.

Shailene Woodley

#5. But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.

Philip Roth

#6. I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

Charles Barkley

#7. Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.

Richard Kadrey

#8. I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it.

Nick Jonas

#9. Make him stop drinking'. He prayed every night. " 'Lord, let my father die', he prayed very often. 'Let him not be killed at pit'", he prayed when, after tea, the father did not come home from work.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Some single men stop drinking when they git married and others start!

Tennessee Williams

#11. But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he did want.
Apart from Blay, that was.

J.R. Ward

#12. Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

Brigham Young

#13. But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

Rick Allen

#14. I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Trisha Goddard

#15. 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

#16. People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

Magic Johnson

#17. She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know.

Roddy Doyle

#18. I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

Michael Klaper

#20. I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#21. If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

Katherine Heigl

#22. It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me ... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

Sam Kutesa

#23. The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

Matthew Perry

#24. I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Robin Williams

#25. If you decide to cut something out this year, try replacing it with something else to balance out the loss. If you stop drinking soda, for example, replace it with becoming more sedentary. You deserve it. You loved soda.

Colin Nissan

#26. Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much
do some ethereal daydreaming instead
go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.

Jack Kerouac

#27. I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Billy Connolly

#28. This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.

Megan Amram

#29. To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all shared one thing in common, no matter how they did it: They didn't do it.

Augusten Burroughs

#30. Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Cynthia Rylant

#31. I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Lorraine Gary

#32. Nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

Isabelle Holland

#33. Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Josh Radnor

#34. When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Caroline Knapp

#35. It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when usually people give you like this window of success time.

Ryan Montgomery

#36. I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

Mike Tyson

#37. A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

Lemmy Kilmister

#38. If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#39. I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Cate Blanchett

#40. There is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

Caitlin Thomas

#41. I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Colin Hay

#42. I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

Lars Frederiksen

#43. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#44. There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

Frank Oski

#45. What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

Ewan McGregor

#46. Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all a favor and die.

Evelyn Smith

#47. Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

Claire Cook

#48. If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Ed Koch

#49. It's an extraordinary thing - every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?

P.G. Wodehouse

#50. When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

Craig Ferguson

#51. In AA, you are brainwashed into believing that all the good stuff happens only after you stop drinking. Clearly they are lying; my life improved significantly as soon as I ordered a cocktail.

Augusten Burroughs

#52. The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Jeffrey Bernard

#53. Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

Billy Carter