Term Quotes

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

He who defines the terms, controls the debate.

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

India has now graduated from megawatts to gigawatts in terms of renewable energy production.

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Long term interest of the nation should be foremost.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.

Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.