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 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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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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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.
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To see McCabe back on the ice after 30 seconds speaks for itself ... case closed.
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Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
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If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
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I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.
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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.
