Quotes by Sobriety I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that. Jeffrey Tambor sobrietytouchingthinking Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. Jeremy Collier sobrietysatisfactiongiving So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection. Johann Hari sobrietyaddictionopposites something has been said for sobriety but very little. John Berryman sobrietybeerlittles There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciardi sobrietydrinkingbeer A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion. Joseph Addison sobrietyjusticephilosophy The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not to contend with others on account of their faith, or systems of religion, but pursue a steady course. This I delivered by way of commandment; and all who observe it not, will pull down persecution upon their heads, while those who do, shall always be filled with the Holy Ghost; this I pronounced as a prophecy, and sealed with hosanna and amen. Joseph Smith, Jr. sobrietymissionaryjesus Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine. Judith Thurman sobrietyalcoholwine One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker. Kevin Sessums bumper-stickerjudgmentalsobriety I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me. Lucy Maud Montgomery knacksobrietypeople One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision. Ludwig von Mises illuminationsobrietyvision Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. Marcus Aurelius grumblingsobrietypower Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world. Marianne Williamson sobrietyaddictionworld It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking. Mahatma Gandhi moderationsobrietyessence Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. Mark Twain sobrietydarkdoors Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it Mahatma Gandhi passive-aggressivesobrietypeace I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash. Mary Docter sobrietywantinspirational There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. Mary Karr sobrietydreaminspirational A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music. Marya Mannes sobrietypassionatemusical What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. Mark Twain liquorsobrietymorality«12345»
