Term Quotes

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment. 'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he glared at them. 'Oh, shut up,' he said.

Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood.

A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the financial issues in a business are huge.

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

I usually think in terms of music

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

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

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.