Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

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• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Career

• So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Future

• We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• Iraq's debt to the Russian Federation comes to $8 billion U.S. and as far as the Russian government's position on this, it is not planning any kind of write-off of that debt.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Planning
  • Position
  • Debt

• The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Morning
  • Position
  • Iran

• Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. ‘Mount Rushmore,’ she said. ‘Little far west of home for this time of year?’ The

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

  

  Angela Davis
  • Radical
  • Root
  • Grasping

• An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Waiting
  • Actor
  • Natural

• Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Blue
  • Media
  • Position

• There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Path

• telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Life is

• In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Important
  • House
  • Position

• I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Book
  • Mines
  • Honored

• No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Year
  • Position
  • Believed

• Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Jesus
  • Needs
  • Hero

• I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • May
  • Rational
  • Mines

• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Accomplished

• I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Build
  • Houses
  • Decorating

• In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Problems
  • Scientist
  • Solution

• For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Literature

• When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Heart
  • House
  • Hate

• Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

  

  Terry Eagleton
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  • Radical
  • Mines