Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...
TERRY EAGLETON It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
TERRY EAGLETON Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary top...
TERRY EAGLETON Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoi...
TERRY EAGLETON The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up wi...
TERRY EAGLETON We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation...
TERRY EAGLETON For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
TERRY EAGLETON What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much ...
TERRY EAGLETON From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power can...
TERRY EAGLETON The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too...
TERRY EAGLETON The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nation...
TERRY EAGLETON Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of ...
TERRY EAGLETON If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a t...
TERRY EAGLETON In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this me...
TERRY EAGLETON The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed ...
TERRY EAGLETON It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is ab...
TERRY EAGLETON Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
TERRY EAGLETON Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the origina...
TERRY EAGLETON There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine...
TERRY EAGLETON Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is su...
TERRY EAGLETON A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairn...
TERRY EAGLETON It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to mid...
TERRY EAGLETON What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...
TERRY EAGLETON Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man ...
TERRY EAGLETON Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political...
TERRY EAGLETON Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attr...
TERRY EAGLETON All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to a...
TERRY EAGLETON The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which d...
TERRY EAGLETON Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a lang...
TERRY EAGLETON The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a t...
TERRY EAGLETON Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhe...
TERRY EAGLETON A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who h...
TERRY EAGLETON Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s differe...
TERRY EAGLETON In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that t...
TERRY EAGLETON Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.
TERRY EAGLETON Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...
TERRY EAGLETON The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
TERRY EAGLETON In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...
TERRY EAGLETON Nature has the upper hand. For the individual, his is known as death. The Faustian dream of progress...
TERRY EAGLETON Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels’s textile-manufacturing ...
TERRY EAGLETON Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing ...
TERRY EAGLETON You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It...
TERRY EAGLETON The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in anoth...
TERRY EAGLETON If Marx had no time for the state, it was partly because he viewed it as a kind of alienated power. ...
TERRY EAGLETON Those who speak of harmony and consensus should beware of what one might call the industrial chaplai...
TERRY EAGLETON You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
TERRY EAGLETON ... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean h...
TERRY EAGLETON Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
TERRY EAGLETON Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised....
TERRY EAGLETON Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should co...
TERRY EAGLETON [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack coca...
TERRY EAGLETON If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stu...
TERRY EAGLETON It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
TERRY PRATCHETT If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...
TERRY PRATCHETT In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
TERRY PRATCHETT Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
TERRY PRATCHETT Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is ...
TERRY GOODKIND Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
TERRY PRATCHETT Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...
TERRY PRATCHETT All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...
TERRY PRATCHETT There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma...
TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...
TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...
TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT