Pastoral Resources

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.