Sigmund Freud Quotes

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Sigmund Freud

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• I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Kids
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Love
  • Game
  • Day-Out

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Men
  • Black
  • California

• Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Future
  • Progress

• The site will have two medical office-type uses. Basically, they'll be identical buildings.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Medical
  • Buildings
  • Site

• A hooker once told me she had a headache.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Told
  • Headache

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Americans
  • Generations
  • Union

• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Men
  • Prayer

• There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Crafts

• Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

  

  William Cowper
  • Religion
  • Needs
  • Heavenly

• We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

  

  Ashlyn Harris
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Stand
  • Within
  • Contrast

• We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Lord
  • Condition

• Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Condition
  • Surveillance

• With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

  

  Arnold Beichman
  • Human
  • Condition
  • Revolutions

• We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Condition
  • Contrast
  • Constituted