Hawkeye: Let's make a pact about drinking. Trapper: All right. Hawkeye: Let's never stop.
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Quotes tagged ‘Alcoholism’
My dad was domineering. He had a different set of values, but also a very stern individual. My dad drank a lot, and when he drank a lot, he was abusive to my mother and to me. But I never swung at my dad, because I loved him for what he stood for.
Ann: Do you exercise? Ron: Yes. Lovemaking and woodworking.
They say as soon you have to cut down on your drinking, you have a drinking problem.
— Janet Leahy, Lisa Albert, Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, imdb.com
Help yourself...not the Stoli.
Alcoholism is a disease, but it’s the only one you can get yelled at for having.
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.
My childhood was tough. I started with nothing and was dealt a dysfunctional card. My father was a severe alcoholic and my mom worked as a cook and a nurse at night.
He hit us when he was drunk, things were thrown, we had to run for our lives. We spent many nights, weekends, hidden in DHSS rooms. I remember being woken in the night, mum screaming, and rushing down the street in our pyjamas to a neighbour's to wait for the police.
I don't drink anymore. That was always my biggest problem. I never did cocaine or any of those things. Alcohol was always my enemy, for as far back as I can remember. When I quit drinking and quit smoking cigarettes, a lot of my problems went away.
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down—but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.
My father had a drinking problem and was sick in that way. It's why I constantly look around to make sure everything is all right. When I was a kid, family-wise, you always want everything to be smooth and easy. Calm. And my father was a sweet man during the day. But as soon as he had a drink, he we…
All of your relatives died from alcoholism. The ones that didn't drink were killed by the ones who did.
Admitting that my mother had once been so incredible made her decline even more upsetting.
Intemperance increased…men, women, and children drank; men and women died from alcoholism, and little children were seen reeling on the streets of the town; drunken brawls in which men were killed occurred, and no person's life was considered safe.
Luke Cage: Lot of booze for such a small woman. Jessica Jones: I don't get asked on a lot of second dates.
— Melissa Rosenberg, Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter, imdb.com
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
I was afraid that loving the drunk story best meant some part of me still wanted to keep living it. And of course, some part of me did.
I mashed the lime in my vodka tonic and glimpsed — in the sweet spot between two drinks and three, then three and four, then four and five — my life as something illuminated from the inside.
It was liberating to start imagining that there could be meaningful stories told about wreckage, sure, but also meaningful stories told about what it might mean to pull yourself out from under it: stories about showing up for work, for intimacy, for other people; stories about getting through ordina…