Sobriety Quotes - Page 3

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

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.

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of 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.

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.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

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.

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not to contend with others on account of their faith, or systems of religion, but pursue a steady course. This I delivered by way of commandment; and all who observe it not, will pull down persecution upon their heads, while those who do, shall always be filled with the Holy Ghost; this I pronounced as a prophecy, and sealed with hosanna and amen.