Sentences with phrase «after getting sober»

Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy meeting with them, or I wouldn't want to go drinking with them, but after I got sober I realized that I was really just finding ways to drink, and hooking a justification to it by including a client.

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It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.

I had no use for organized religon before getting sober, and less so after being sober for 28 years.

In fact after people get clean and sober, they can be a member of The Wolf Pack and begin to influence others at those meetings for Christ's sake.

But only to the women as someone needs to be sober to drive them home after they get high and pick up their birth control pills.

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.

After listening to eco-warrior Paul Hawken share how we can affect climate change; actor, activist, and best - seller Hill Harper make an important statement about political divisiveness; best - seller Kate Fagan discuss suicide in athletes; and Lisa Merkle give a sobering reminder that yogis get cancer too in the first studio session of the day, I was ready to process all that I'd taken in — and, of course, refuel my body for the afternoon.

Sheen's bad - boy image turned especially grim in 1998, when he was hospitalized for drug and alcohol abuse; after a short - lived stay in rehab, Sheen gave sobriety another try, and by 1999 he was, by all accounts, clean and sober and ready to get his career back on track.

Smashed, co-written by director James Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a married alcoholic schoolteacher who decides to get sober after her life starts spinning out of control.

We're just about sobered up after last week's doozy of a Republican National Convention, where Melania Trump became the world's most famous appropriation artist with her «plagiarized» Michelle Obama speech... and we're already reaching for the bottle to get through the chaotic Democratic National Convention starting today.

When it comes to recovering alcoholics, your past can haunt you long after you've been sober, which is why it's important to find the best life insurance company to help you get a policy.

A more sobering aspect of this movement has been revealed more recently in the form of «Swedish Death Cleaning,» which involves getting rid of anything you don't need any more so as to relieve others of the task of discarding it after you've passed on.