#alcohol

[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#alcohol #drunkenness #anarchy

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alcohol #answer #been #compelling #crisis

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them. ↗

— Scott Baio

#became #because #did #drink #faithful

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Robert Frost

#alcoholism #disease #egotism #executives #popularly

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun. ↗

— Rima Fakih

#fun #have fun #i #i do #like

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#any #comfort #disguises #disposal #does

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#alcoholic #anything #benefit #father #having

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#acid #alcohol #am #bad #ban

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others. ↗

— Richard Kiel

#also #because #believed #blessed #bondage