#addict

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#alcoholics #anonymous #bootleg #cult #i

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #love-addiction #women #humor

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

#addiction #becomes #once #secrecy

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#addict #been #big #big success #contract

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic. ↗

— Sue William Silverman

#alcohol #love #sex #love

Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He called me beautiful. I expected him to expect perfection. He taught me all I needed to know. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#boy #drug #girl #life #love

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#coffee #humor #humor

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal. ↗

— Ethlie Ann Vare

#love-addiction #self-help #sex #sex-addiction #love

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ethics #moral #business