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 just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Cabaret
  • Mohicans

• 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

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• 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

• Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Good
  • True

• 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

• Working at a fulfillment center is definitely not the most glamorous job. I know because, in the early days, that's what I did, day in and day out. I had a tape gun in my hand, and I taped boxes.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Job
  • Hand
  • Gun

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Personality
  • Understand

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

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

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Logic
  • Technique
  • Coherent