Brie Quotes

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

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.

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.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

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.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” “Oh?” “The taken. The uninterested.” “As opposed to… you, Gabriel?” “Well, yes.

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.