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

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• 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

• The wonders of nature are endless.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Endless
  • Wonders

• 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

• Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Strong
  • Evil
  • Fit

• 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

• Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Wants
  • Endless
  • Few

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

  

  Abram L. Sachar
  • Democracy
  • Fulfillment
  • Adequacy

• Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Alive
  • Terrible
  • Endless

• I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

  

  Sharni Vinson
  • Grew Up
  • Physical
  • Gratification

• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Men
  • War
  • Death

• The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• 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