Term Quotes · Page 16

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

— Jim Butcher

I don't really like the term 'honest.'

— Paul Rust

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

— Frances Moore Lappé

Long-term vision and product strategy.

— Bill Gates

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

— Indro Montanelli

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

— Hunter S. Thompson

[Bill] Clinton remained in campaign mode the first years of his first term.

— Rush Limbaugh

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The term 'great,' that's something I have a great deal of respect for.

— Mike Tomlin

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

— John Stott

When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

— Rickson Gracie

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

— William Shakespeare

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability

— Jimmy Armfield

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it…

— Aidan Chambers

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than…

— David Fincher

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it…

— Henry Rosovsky

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are…

— Mark Cuban

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

— Stephen Covey

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

— Robert Carlyle

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

— Ward Churchill

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

— Epicurus

When Donald Trump had all of his opponents, when he had critics in his party saying what you're calling for in terms…

— Steve Kornacki

Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there…

— Evan Osnos

We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost…

— Michael Ventura

We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a…

— Donald Watson

Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element…

— Fethullah Gulen

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways,…

— Nick Blaemire

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively…

— Tony Blair

Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become…

— Edward Kennedy

We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in…

— James Clerk Maxwell

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out…

— Alain Prost

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by…

— Laura Riding

I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa…

— George W. Bush

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people…

— Sasha Abramsky

The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,…

— Denis Hayes

The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I…

— Jancee Dunn

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

— Alain de Botton

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

— W. M. Kiplinger