Term Quotes

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience, that the information accumulated was available forever.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

Success is only measured in terms of JOY

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.

Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.