Willard Gaylin Quotes

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Willard Gaylin

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
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• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
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• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Potential

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Society
  • Words

• I love men who make me laugh.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Men
  • Love
  • For Her

• I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Society
  • Democracy

• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Fear

• In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Career

• We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Small
  • Space
  • Warm

• When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Drunk

• I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.

  

  William Hung
  • Feels
  • Jokes
  • Genuine

• To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Men
  • Term
  • Behavior