Sigmund Freud Quotes

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Sigmund Freud

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I've never tried to be something I'm not.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Something
  • Tried

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Me
  • Touch

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • World
  • Eyes

• Puerto Rico still has the wherewithal to be a tourist destination.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • Destination
  • Puerto Rico

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

  

  Aryn Kyle
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Divinity

• Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Humanity
  • Degree
  • Irrational