Quotes For Parents Of Addicts

#1. Social entrepreneurs aim to combine the best of both worlds and "do well by doing good." Usually they end up doing neither.

Peter Thiel

#2. I reread books to measure my degree of difference from myself.

Heidi Julavits

#3. But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.

David McCullough

#4. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Leo Hindery

#5. Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

Donna Gillespie

#6. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Adair Turner

#7. Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#8. You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

John Ruskin

#9. It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Kirstie Alley

#10. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

Andrew Dice Clay

#11. I can see every monster as they come in.

Truman Capote

#12. You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

Stephen Richards

#13. In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

Riz Ahmed

#14. Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.

Katrina Kaif

#15. Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Roger Rosenblatt