Jacques Lacan Quotes

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Jacques Lacan

• Obsession
• Sexual
• Obsessional

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Stop
  • Positive

• In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Water

• The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Fear

• It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Nice
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • People
  • Sick

• I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Singing

• He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Education

• Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Life
  • Man
  • Way

• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Cool

• There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Important
  • Black

• I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Children
  • Fall

• You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Realize
  • Home
  • Habit

• The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

  

  Scottie Pippen
  • Mailman
  • Sundays

• When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Proud
  • Film
  • Audience

• As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Liberal
  • Sexual
  • Orientation

• Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

  

  Celia Green
  • Way
  • Research
  • Theories

• Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Obsession
  • Sexual
  • Obsessional