#diction

I've triumphed over addiction. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #over #triumphed

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#i #never #prediction #said #stand

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#commune #conscious #contradiction #embrace #felt

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. ↗

— David Korten

#i #make #need #plausible #prediction

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#former #horrible #i #myself

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#hunger #diet

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#drugs #age

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation, Like Need and Anger and Desperation... No, The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . . ↗

— Aimee Mann

#fire #flame #moths #anger

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anger