Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

Terry Eagleton

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Clothes
  • Thank God

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Political
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Unhappy

• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chinese
  • Splits
  • Sideways

• The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Great
  • Important
  • Character

• My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Moments

• The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Occupation

• All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Women
  • Amputations

• If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to differently.

  

  Aaron Scheidies
  • Eyes
  • Attitude
  • Opening

• Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

  

  William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  • Kind
  • Acting
  • Certain

• When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."

  

  Julia Natasha Stone Angus & Julia Stone
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Possibility
  • Ideology