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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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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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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London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
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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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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
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n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.
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No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
