Bernard Lonergan Quotes

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Bernard Lonergan

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• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Great
  • Cool

• A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Today
  • Value

• We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.

  

  Barbara Walters

• Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.

  

  W. Clement Stone

• Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Political
  • Peace

• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Passion

• Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky, being a clergyman.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Heart

• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Wall
  • Rose

• I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination. (17 May 1940)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.12 (15 June 1946)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • June

• My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Reading
  • Rule
  • Sufficient

• I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Silence

• Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.

  

  George L. Carlson
  • Modern
  • Simplicity
  • Technique

• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Focus
  • Summer

• When I became Miss World, movie offers started coming to me in India.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • Movie

• No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Logic
  • Technique
  • Coherent