Top 1200 Being Sober Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.

When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.

I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

The Italian duo Dumbo Gets Mad specializes in psychedelics for the sober, bringing experimentation together with detailed pop songwriting.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

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.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]