Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.
Terry Eagleton
Quotes to Explore
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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
T. D. Jakes
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
Joanne Rowling
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
Adrian Rogers
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
H. Burke Peterson
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
Chuck Klosterman
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Control your life through insanity.
Cliff Burton
Metallica
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That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
Barack Obama, Sr.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
Plato
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I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.
Andrew Jack
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As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.
William James
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With the 20 years of experience that we've have had with this employee, we have every confidence in the world in him.
Bob Wright
