New Addiction Quotes

#1. We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely ... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

George Sheehan

#2. Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#3. Grant kissed my neck that I offered up like a willing victim in True Blood. Take me ... Bite me. Lick me. Oh this was madness! Glorious, wonderful madness!
-Julie
From: A New Addiction

Valerie Alexander

#4. For some, the new addiction reached beyond gambling to compulsive eating, alcohol consumption, and hypersexuality.

David Eagleman

#5. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.

Dan Mager

#6. Artificial over-stimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. Whether the victims were men or women, arousal addiction seemed to have become the new normal.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change. Recover to Live may alter the way broader society looks at the disease of addiction and those who are suffering from it.

Drew Pinsky

#8. Yep, it's revolutionary. We made a new I pad at twice the price and half the size , and durability. Also, if you break it, it's okay. We'll have six more models by next month

Jack Wynn

#9. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

Brian Spellman

#10. I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Colleen Hoover

#11. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#12. And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.

Aimee Bender

#13. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.

James Hollis

#14. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

#15. Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race ... Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Billy Graham

#16. Gadgets are the new drugs and we are GIPPIES (Gadget Hippies).

Saurabh Sharma

#17. I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#18. All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

Marya Mannes

#19. For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

Nikki Sixx

#20. Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Tom Rachman

#21. If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

Charles Adams

#22. I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Annie Dillard

#23. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)

Stevan V. Nikolic

#24. We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Sherwood Boehlert

#25. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Mick Jagger

#26. Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Dave Navarro

#27. It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.

Kenneth Eade

#28. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber