Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Wrong
  • Anything
  • Anybody

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• My role models have kept on changing.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Role
  • Changing
  • Role Models

• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Interesting
  • Intelligent
  • New

• It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Art
  • Character
  • Beauty

• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Darkness

• My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Success
  • Me
  • Son

• I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Start

• Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

  

  Maria Montessori

• I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.

  

  Brian Lee
  • Up

• I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • America
  • War
  • Today

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Children
  • School
  • High

• Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
  • Age
  • Soul
  • Mirror

• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Age
  • Political
  • Modern