Sentences with phrase «like getting sober»

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Having religion as a basis to getting sober from an addiction is like having religion as a basis to commit terrorist acts.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

«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.

AA makes it sound like the only way to get sober is through them.

I was sober for three years and when I started getting in my own head again, started getting real dark, I had Sherri pray and Declan was in Europe, and he got this convent full of nuns to pray for me, and whatever happened, I had a turnaround, like a 180.

People like this Tony Beaver guy... I just can't wrap my mind around why he cares HOW someone gets sober.

Pentecost was the day they got their answer: with great joy, and with wind and fire and Spirit, making them look like a bunch of happy drunks in the midst of a numbingly sober and sour world.

Far too often, professionals and laymen a like have been deluded into thinking there is one and only one way to get and stay clean / sober - «find God».

Religion certainly had nothing to do with me getting sober, just like it has nothing to do with my entire life.

Somehow I get the feeling that a lot fewer people read what we publish than we'd like to think... a sobering thought for any professional communicator.

For your money, you'll get a sober view of what life in Britain is going be like in about 20 years» time.

Unfortunately, the movie (like most drug people I've known through the years) gets dull as hell once it sobers up.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

And Farrell's own problems with substance abuse got in the way too, although he's now clean and sober again, and impressing with performances like the one in «In Bruges.»

When ENR reads about people like Skyline High's Anisa Mughal, he is reminded of a quote (slightly altered to fit ENR's circumstances) from Tom Lehrer: «It is a sobering thought to consider that by the time Mozart got to be my age, he had been dead for 16 years.»