#sober

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. ↗

— Dana Plato

#decade #i #joke #longest #longest time

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

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut! ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#drunk #keep #mouth #said #shut

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#drunken #fact #happier #man #more

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dead #drink #few #get #glasses

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#behave #could #day #drink #like

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#calls #creed #everyone #everything #forgiveness

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand. ↗

— James Taylor

#breaking up #marriage #responsible #sobering #stand

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#drunken #enough #men #sober #themselves