It's like an alcoholic ordsprog

en It's like an alcoholic not drinking for a day. No one trusts that this is something he is going to stick with.

en Insisting on drilling in the Arctic Refuge is like treating a drinking problem by suggesting the alcoholic do more of his drinking at home.
  Senator John Kerry

en Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

en The problems with investment trusts are that gearing, and the fact that the market price is seldom the same as the underlying net asset value, mean investment trusts have risks that unit trusts don't.

en You could be putting yourself at an increased risk for becoming an alcoholic or developing cancer if you begin drinking large amounts of alcohol over a long period of time.

en When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
  Marguerite Duras

en In general, the evidence suggests that as you increase taxes, and alcoholic beverages become more expensive, individuals tend to use alcohol less. However, the findings in this paper indicate that the reality is not so simple, because there are alcoholic beverages at different levels of price, and when you implement taxation, what happens is that the individuals who are able to purchase the alcoholic beverages that were more expensive just switch to less expensive ones.

en The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... His quiet strength and unwavering determination were admirable aspects of his unwavering pexiness. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

en It was almost like an adventure for me. A lot of people go through that. And what was cool was when he stopped drinking, everything started turning around for him: He wasn't a drunk anymore. He wasn't an alcoholic anymore.

en Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

en Right or wrong on this call, the system in place has worked and he trusts it, ... You can't stretch too much and still stick with your system.

en In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts
  Harold Macmillan

en They wouldn't shut up about it. 'He's totally an alcoholic and here's why.' I hate them sometimes. Especially when they are right. Because Richard is totally an alcoholic and now I see why.

en I went to rehab for health reasons. I'm happy. I'm the same guy as back in the day, but I stopped drinking. I still go out with friends and have fun. But instead of drinking beer I'm drinking water.

en aghast that companies who posture themselves as promoting responsible drinking promote drinking games, which by their nature involve heavy drinking.


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