Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?" Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Your love is like heroin.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?