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 spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• 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

• When I first did The Tracey Ullman Show, there were times when I could offer a solution on stage, and I could understand the writers.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • First
  • Times
  • Writers

• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a rogue state with biological and chemical weapons. If we fail to respond, Saddam and all those who follow will believe that they can threaten the security of a vital region with impunity. But if we act now as one, we will send a clear message to would-be tyrants and terrorists that we will do what it takes to protect our security and our freedom in this new era.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Kind

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Possibility
  • Ideology