Wickes Quotes & Sayings

No one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take. — Frances G. Wickes

If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses. — George Clooney

Adulthood is hell. — H.P. Lovecraft

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously? — Robin Williams

You 're making the compassionate decision."
There will be no miracles.
There will be no tomorrows. — Steven Rowley

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment. — Frances G. Wickes

I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music
particularly American music
that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music. — John Renbourn

So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side. — Frances G. Wickes

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. — Frances G. Wickes

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself. — Frances G. Wickes

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities. — Frances G. Wickes

We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial. — Virginia Woolf

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards — Frances G. Wickes

The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer. — Neal A. Maxwell

Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency. — Frances G. Wickes

To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted, but because those steps are taken by the unconscious. — Frances G. Wickes

Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern. — Frances G. Wickes

All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping. — H.L. Mencken

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet. — Steve Yzerman

We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption. — Narendra Modi

Success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance. — Frances G. Wickes

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers. — Stephen D. Krashen

Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to. — Sarah Mayberry

The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear. — Aldous Huxley

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car. — Daniel Radcliffe

We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality. — Frances G. Wickes