Addiction Quotes - page 7

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. (Jeffrey Kluger)
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat. View quote
Jim Costa
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. View quote
Julie Bishop
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. View quote
James Buchan
I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another. View quote
Kevin Nealon
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have. View quote
Lynda Resnick
I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction... View quote
Mark Boone Junior
That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.' View quote
Michael Moss
I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. View quote
Nicolas Ghesquiere
A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. (Robert Trout)
Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it. View quote
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction. View quote
Susannah Grant
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension. View quote
Sanjeev Bhaskar
I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help. View quote
Tommy Rettig
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care. View quote
Thomas R. Insel
Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever. View quote
Valeria Mazza
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction. View quote
Yusef Komunyakaa
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices. View quote
Padgett Powell
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. View quote
Jamie Lee Curtis
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. (Clarence Day)
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. View quote
Jay Inslee
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. View quote
Jay Inslee
I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self addiction. View quote
Don Miller (author)
MySpace is an addiction. View quote
Paulo Coelho