Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

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

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• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • Responsible
  • Radical

• 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

• Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Position

• 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

• That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Mines

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

  

  Eli Manning
  • Year
  • Position
  • Believed

• Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Reality
  • Kind

• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Should
  • Poet
  • Modern

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

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Position
  • Radical
  • Mines