Term Quotes

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

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

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you.

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?

If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

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

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

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

I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.