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

• I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

  

  John Musker
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Term

• 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

• The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Pretty
  • Party
  • Focus

• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

  

  Sophocles
  • Teach
  • Instinct
  • Condition

• I don't put my nose up at anything if the material is good.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Good
  • Material
  • Nose

• 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