#alcohol

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#apartment #chic #disgusting #i #like

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic #alcoholic beverages #any #beverages #deny

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic beverages #appreciation #begin #beverages #clear

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol. ↗

— Peter Steele

#big #big fan #effects #fan #i

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#class #many #people #working

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#cut #emotions #end #in the end #off

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#going #kids #part #society #try

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#alcohol #become #broader #church #enhanced

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.' ↗

— Betty Ford

#always #around #come #course #drink