Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

Terry Eagleton

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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Jack Gleeson
- Trying
- Poetry
- Difficult
I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

Najib Mikati
- People
- Good
- Bad
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Eyes
- Find
- Face
When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

Karen Finerman
- Time
- Believe
- Yourself
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Floyd Skloot
In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

Wang Shi
- Help
- Small
- City