Drinking Problem Quotes

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do? ~ T.C. Boyle

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth. ~ Joe Eszterhas

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem. ~ Jerry Orbach

Detective Sergeant Lincoln Gibbs was a tall, thin African-American with mocha-colored skin, a profoundly receding hairline, and tortoiseshell spectacles. He looked like a college professor, which was a look he cultivated. He had twenty-eight years on the job, less than Tomsic, but more time in grade as a detective sergeant, so Linc Gibbs would be in charge. He arrived with Detective-three Pete Bishop, a twenty-two-year veteran with an M.A. in psychology and five divorces. Bishop rarely spoke, but was known to make copious notes, which he referred to often. He had a measured IQ of 178 and a drinking problem. He was currently in twelve-step. ~ Robert Crais

My lowest self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk!"
My slightly higher self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk right now only because he's going through a really hard time in life, and his parents never taught him how to behave better, and he might have some sort of mild mental illness, and also he has a drinking problem ... so I should try to be more compassionate and generous toward sad, tragic, miserable people like that."
My even higher self says: "We are all just flawed and frightened human beings in an uncertain world, struggling to survive."
Then finally my VERY highest self says: "Lord, please help me stop acting like a total jerk."
... and that's when it finally stops being about the other person at all. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink. ~ John Green

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem. ~ George Burns

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit. ~ Michael J. Fox

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution. ~ Stephen Fry

I lean on my friends for support. It's better than leaning on a crutch, because your friends won't accuse you of chugging down all the water out of the goldfish bowl. My friends know I have a drinking problem. ~ Jarod Kintz

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please. ~ Daniel Silva

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem. ~ Bradford Cox

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it. ~ Roseanne Barr

So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking problem, and so forth. Clichés often exist for a reason, of course, and sometimes it's okay to use a tried and true character. But not always. Populate your stories with only stock characters and there won't be any reason to read your tales over anyone else's. ~ Craig Hart

There's a huge difference for taking responsibility for one's actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won't take responsibility for my teacher's drinking problem, but I will take credit for it. ~ Benjamin Tomes

I call it your source-fracture wound, the original break in your heart from long ago. It may have happened in an instant--a little rejection, a shocking abandonment, or a slight misattunement that suddenly made you realize how alone you were in this world. Or perhaps it was a bit-bu-bit splintering as over the years you met with an intermittent meanness, an unpredictable but repetitive abuse, or a neglect that stole your childhood inches at a time. Wherever, however, or whenever it happened, one thing we can assume is that no adult helped you make accurate meaning of your confusing and painful experience. No grown up sat you down and lovingly said, "No, honey, it's not that you're stupid. It's that your big brother is scared and insecure." "It's not that you don't matter, angel. It's that Daddy has a drinking problem and needs help." "It's not that you're not enough. It's that Mommy has clinical depression, dear, and it's neither your fault nor yours to fix." Without this mature presence to help explain to you what was happening to your little world, you probably came to some pretty strong and wrong conclusions about who you were and what was possible for you to have in life. And those conclusions became a habit of consciousness, a filter through which you interpret and then respond to the events of your life, making your grief all the more complex. ~ Katherine Woodward Thomas

You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name
and you've never been to that bar before. ~ Zach Galifianakis

Our small town was like a vortex that suspended time. If you didn't leave, it would suck you in, and before you knew it, twenty years had passed and you were still there, working the same job you had since you graduated high school. Just add procreation, a trailer, and a drinking problem, and you would be just like the majority of my neighbors. ~ Sadie Allen

Drinking Problem

Yeah, you think you've got bugs
You think you've got a problem
Baby, you don't think enough
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At least I know who my friends are

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Yeah man you think you've got bugs
Felt a lot of longitudes
You've already done too much
At least I know who my

Even with your resolutions
Hypocrisy is digging in
You don't need a point of reference
You just need to be afraid
Even though I can't believe you
It's not like I don't want to
Anyone can make excuses
At least I know who my

Come on in if you think you've got bugs
Come on in if you think you've got bugs
Come on in if you think you've got bugs
Come on in if you think you've got bugs
Come on in if you think you've got bugs
Come on in if you think you've got bugs

At least I know who my
At least I know who my friends are ~ Surfer Blood

Every day we learn more and more about this wacky Osama bin Laden. He lives in a cave and at one time he was a womanizer. But now he has settled down with his five wives and 26 kids, so that's now all over ... He also had a drinking problem at one time. I believe he went through 'Jihab' ~ David Letterman

Six years later, Kalief and I are exactly where we started: still engaged and still hustling in this fucked-up industry. Only now he has a coke problem, a drinking problem, a gambling problem, a lying problem, and a cheating problem. But I still fuckin' love him: hood girl problems. I hang my head as another ~ De'nesha Diamond

We know you didn't make it as a cop. We know you have a small gambling problem and a big drinking problem."
"Actually, it's vice versa, Mr. Greenwal. But the good news is I don't smoke. My mother smokes. Now that is a filthy habit. ~ Adam Pepper

If you have ever been so upset by something that you drank yourself unconscious only to wake up some time later in an unfamiliar place with only a bad headache and a case of the spins to keep you company, then you have a small idea of the kind of trauma that Bianca experienced when she awoke in Bobcorp3. You also may have a drinking problem. ~ Brian Cramer

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. ~ Ronald Reagan

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. ~ Matthew Perry

In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them. ~ Wolfgang Gullich

It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore. ~ Robert Heilbroner

Selling is about identifying the needs of your prospect. Have a conversation. Solve the problem. ~ Timi Nadela

Here's the problem. I don't know how to live if I'm not loving you. It's like asking my lungs to expand without air, my heart to beat without blood, my eyes to see without light. It's just not possible. And yet, you're so stupid ... ~ Jewel E. Ann

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. ~ James Meredith

Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable. ~ Frank Skinner

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. ~ Megan Hart

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. ~ Xavier Becerra

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free. ~ Olivier Magny

Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it. ~ Sarah Steele

Every solution of a problem is a new problem. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and polite ridicule; forces which are not always available, and for whose successful operation much time will be required. But the outstanding fact remains, that the world has come to regard liquor in a new and clearer light. Our next generation of poets will contain but few Anacreons, for the thinking element of mankind has robbed the flowing bowl of its fancied virtues and fictitious beauties. The grape, so long permitted to masquerade as the inspirer of wit and art, is now revealed as the mother of ruin and death. The wolf at last stands divested of its sheep's clothing. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ~ Brian Aldiss

But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it. ~ Alice Schwarzer

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution. ~ Napoleon Hill

It's a facade to hide the fact that my heart is breaking. But, whatever. That isn't your problem anymore. ~ Kristen Ashley

It is difficult to decide what you mean when you say any of these words and easy to claim that anyone else's meaning is (or is not) the right one. There is a built-in indeterminacy in our use of language that allows us to shift responsibility for actions in Paris away from a religion to a minor strand in a religion, or to the actions of only those who pulled the trigger. This is the universal problem of secularism, which eschews stereotyping. It leaves unclear who is to be held responsible for what. By devolving all responsibility on the individual, secularism tends to absolve nations and religions from responsibility. ~ George Friedman

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice. ~ Lucy Lawless

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective. ~ Max Anders

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms, plotting the restoration of the monarchy. One wishes them well but knows deep down that they are not the future. ~ Rod Dreher

Look, Simon, Luke thinks you should tell your mom. You can't hide it from her forever."
"I can damn well try."
"Think about Luke," she said desperately. "You can still live a normal life."
"And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin. ~ Cassandra Clare

In addition to the alienation of farmers, large parts of the Mittelstand, growing numbers of industrialists and of the nationalist right by 1928, there was a further worrying trend facing the regime, the progressive disillusionment of young people and of the literary and cultural elites. The First World War and its aftermath had shaken loose many of the traditional ties binding young people to their families and to their local communities. As the Koblenz authorities noted in the early 1920s, 'the present sad appearance of the young, their debasement on the steeets, in pubs and dance halls results from the absence of firm authority by fathers and by schools during the war. The children of that time are today s young people who have little sense of authority and discipline.' In Cologne, it was observed that young people were spending too much time on 'visits to pubs, excessive drinking and dancing'. As ~ Ruth Henig

When there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me. ~ R.C. Sproul

Young, wild, and free, my whole life ahead of me. So I'm drinking heavily, steadily making memories. ~ Mike Stud

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was a universal one, not just one that could be disposed of by placing it on the doorstep of the National Socialists. The deportees - many of whom were Communists - had been largely responsible for leading international political thinking to such an erroneous conclusion. I suddenly felt that by remaining silent I was an accomplice to a dangerous influence. ~ Paul Rassinier

When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others. ~ John Templeton

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem. ~ Marva Collins

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved. ~ Mitch Hedberg

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves. ~ Shakti Gawain

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation. ~ Amr Moussa

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way ... ~ Gemma Arterton