Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

Terry Eagleton

• Instant
• Endless
• Fulfillment
• Gratification

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Mystery

• Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Find

• You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

  

  Karen Kain
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Fulfillment

• Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • House
  • Instant

• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Real
  • Food
  • Care

• People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Time
  • Letters
  • Readers

• I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Up
  • Character
  • Excited

• Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • She
  • Morning
  • Silence

• One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Personal
  • Gratification

• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Expression
  • Appetite
  • Endless

• Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Moments
  • Sincerity
  • Passing

• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Love
  • Human
  • Sense

• Success without fulfillment is failure.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Fulfillment

• He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Change
  • Pleasure
  • Gratification

• The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Guy

• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Audience

• The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

  

  Abram L. Sachar
  • Democracy
  • Fulfillment
  • Adequacy

• I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Turns
  • Instant
  • Bullish

• Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Goal
  • Foundation
  • Oppositions

• The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Rush

• Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Treasury
  • Bankrupt

• We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Instant
  • Endless
  • Fulfillment