Daniel Hack Tuke quotes

“A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.”
-- Daniel Hack Tuke

#Sex Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Bipolar Quotes

“A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”

“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”

“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”

“A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.”

“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”

“I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.”

Source : "Witt's Beginning: Alicia Witt Struts Her Stuff in the New Comedy 'Playing Mona Lisa'" by Christopher Null, filmsite.org, October 17, 2000.

“Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.”

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”