Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

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• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I'm marriable. But I'm not married.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

  

  Naveen Andrews
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• I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!

  

  Laura Osnes
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• Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  

  E. T. Bell
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• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
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• You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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  • Best
  • Mad

• We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

  

  Aaron David Gordon
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• Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  

  Lou Holtz
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• I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Up
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  • Desire

• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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  • Magic
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• I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Mean
  • Enjoy
  • Virtue