In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity. — Laurie Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Anchors like Megyn Kelly are incredibly powerful in terms of distilling the information and reporting the news and maybe some opinion to… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty,… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled… — Francis George Copy Share Image
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes,… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country,… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right… — Tim Wirth Copy Share Image
The long-term benefit of homeopathy to the patient is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms but it reestablishes internal order… — George Vithoulkas Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term,… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image