Term Quotes

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I don't like the term 'voice-over.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

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.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

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?

I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

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

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled

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

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Tim Kaine didn't come across authentic. It wasn't good. And it was - it just really - I think, for short-term benefit, I think the Democrats tarnished the brand, which is an awfully good brand.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

You can be sure that I won't experiment with right-wing terms.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.