Quotes About Substance Use

#1. You may have also experienced the damaged relationships, job loss, poor school performance, substance use, and other negative outcomes that can result from having bipolar disorder. Perhaps

Ruth C. White

#2. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#3. Surely, I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser.

Katha Pollitt

#4. If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Al Roker

#5. I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.

Mark Tufo

#6. Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Stanislav Grof

#7. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.

S. E. Smith

#8. A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

Sarah Susanka

#9. It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

Steven Gould

#10. People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

Travis Bradberry

#11. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

#12. Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Mark McGwire

#13. Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.

Wallace D. Wattles

#14. Why is it that the unwanted things come up of their own but the things of substance, of use, and of value need efforts to make them prosper?

Girdhar Joshi

#15. What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion

Gertrude Stein

#16. Some people don't care about Christianity at all unless it can make them drunk or high "in the spirit." They use and abuse God and Christianity just like they would use any other substance in their life. They search for the experiences, but not God.

Lisa Bedrick

#17. My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'

Paul Merton

#18. But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

Alison Weir

#19. You can use whatever substance you want, but the ultimate high is attainable only through love.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#20. Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#21. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

Mark Stepnoski

#22. Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Saint Augustine

#23. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Stanley Schmidt

#24. The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).

Billy Graham

#25. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#26. I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.

Theodore Sturgeon

#27. We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House ... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.

Horace Rowan Gaither

#28. There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.

Ted Leeson

#29. I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

Garry Shandling

#30. Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.

Ernest Cline

#31. To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex ("the gods wish us to have sex" is the oldest pickup line in the world).

Gene Doucette

#32. In a culture where bigger is always better and flashy is always more effective, Jesus beckons each of us to plainly, humbly, and quietly focus our lives on people.

David Platt

#33. In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

Elliott Carter

#34. our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preserving, which can similarly be triggered off only at a far higher level of stimulus

John Brunner

#35. Substance of your belief has nothing to do with the size of the book you use or how often you open it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#36. I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

Sonya Huber

#37. We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

Charles Stross

#38. I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#39. To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

Huangbo Xiyun

#40. If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.

Liz Garbus

#41. My hair has been mocked a lot.

Bradley Cooper