Eric Taylor quotes

“We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.”
-- Eric Taylor

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Taylor". "Friday Night Lights" (Pilot), www.imdb.com. 2006.

#Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Taken Quotes

“Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Friday Night Lights Quotes

“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
-- Eric Taylor

#Opera Quotes #Murder Quotes #Suggesting Quotes

“Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Friday Night Lights Quotes #Way Quotes #Right Now Quotes

“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Singers Quotes #Habit Quotes #Baritones Quotes

“You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Love You Quotes #People Quotes #Friday Night Quotes

“That's what character is, it's in the trying.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.”
-- Eric Taylor

#Goal Quotes

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

“We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.”

“These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.”

“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”

“There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.”

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”

“Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.”