Best 659 quotes in «term quotes» category

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

A lot of women in the workplace are stuck in the uncomfortable place of having to come to terms with the fact that something isn't right, while no one around them will listen, or accept that something is wrong. Many workplaces have best practice, but sadly, many do not. The barriers are not insurmountable, but they are there, and we see that in the stats.

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Always invest for the long term.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

A Trumpist is a devoted supporter and understands what he or she is doing. A Trumper is just different sounding, better sounding, I think. I've even had some Trumpists tell me they don't like the term. They think it's derogatory.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

"Beach." It's a very loose term now. Pretty widely used term. And that's awesome, but I guess my California experience is different from a lot of people's interpretations, and I think maybe I just wanted to put my spin on it.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.