#sob

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. ↗

— David Brainerd

#endeavour #first #life #practise #resolve

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#been #born #disobedience #having #i

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#began #dawned #doing #got #i

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#after #appropriate #awkward #early #everyone

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#disobedience #faith #obedience #result #unbelief

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. ↗

— Clive Cussler

#calls #convoluted #friends #get #i

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. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#been #better #days #deep #exploring

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#beginning #borrow #comes #couple #fast

You can't legislate sobriety. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#sobriety #you