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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.
The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.
I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.
I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
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 think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and 'Drag Race' is a family, and we support our family members through anything.
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.
Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.
Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
Everything good in my life can be traced back to my mother's sobriety. She showed me that broken people can - with the help of others - turn themselves around.
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.
I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.
Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.
I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in a robust manner to their central role in funding the economy.
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.