Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Terry Eagleton

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Movie
  • Journey
  • Belief

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Active

• I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Want
  • Know

• What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Government
  • Balance
  • Belief

• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Society

• I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Practice

• The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Self

• Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Faith

• It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • World
  • Truth

• Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Long
  • Why

• Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Hope
  • Boy
  • Hands

• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Women
  • She
  • Belief

• The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

  

  John Gardner
  • Humans
  • Values
  • Belief

• On the court, I'm not afraid of anything. I try to have confidence and have a belief in myself.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Myself
  • Confidence
  • Belief

• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

  

  William James
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Needs

• The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Religious
  • Exercise

• But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Persons

• I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.

  

  Dawn Hudson
  • Change
  • Directions
  • Academy

• I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Belief