“I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.” DangerDrugEdgesAlcoholThank GodPillsOver The Edge Author:Johnny Depp
“Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.” TryingFirstsSeemsDangerDrugSafeNormalFirst TimeBoringDrivingRest Of Your LifePrudentSpeeding Author:Tim Allen
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.” StoriesRomanceUsedOur LivesCrimeLonelinessDangerDrugDrinkingPetty Author:Joey Comeau
“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.” ChoicesDangerFitDrugWeightAbsolutesAlcoholInvisibleFatsPoeticUnthinkableUnattractiveMisfitsUndisciplinedUncoolNadirBeing Fat Author:Claudia Shear
“In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.” MenShouldMayWarMightLawCertainForceTakenDangerDrugGainsAdvantageAbuseProfitPreparationPoisonCurrencyCoinsCalamityPrecautionTrafficking Author:Frederic C. Howe
“And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.” PeopleIfsWarHomeDarknessEnvironmentDangerousDangerDrugAll ThingsEnvironmentalTerrorismAidsNuclearPhrasesOur TimePollutionNuclear WarPoisoning Author:Frederick Buechner
“Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.” CountryFightingWinningPartyProgressDangerDevelopmentDrugSurvivalCorruptionSocialismOur CountryCommunistVietnamCommunist Party Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.” DangerDrugMadnessPsychedelicPsychedelic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” MenMayBodyDifficultHappenedDangerDrugIgnorantSufficientShopsConcentrationQuantityLaboratoryExposingMicrobesPenicillin Author:Alexander Fleming
“I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.” RealFeelingsFunToo MuchDangerDependsDrugToo Much Fun Author:Clive James
“Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.” PeopleKnowsStillsKidsGuyOpportunityFeltDangerGrewDrugGrew UpResponsibleAccessErasThis DayCracks Author:Mahershala Ali
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.” BookHardHealingDangerDrugVictimBoundsOverdose Author:Karl Lagerfeld