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.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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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.
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Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!
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Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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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.
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You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
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We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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.
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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.
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But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.
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The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
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If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
