Term Quotes · Page 18

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

— Israel Shahak

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

— Indira Gandhi

Rounding up' is not a term that I would use for people.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

— Brian Corby

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

— Doris Lessing

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

— Alan Carr

In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

— John Mulaney

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames. When the judgmental eye looks out, it sees things in terms of…

— John O'Donohue

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to…

— Erykah Badu

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

— David Platt

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to…

— Justin Long

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in…

— Lucrecia Martel

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the…

— Jerome Bruner

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is…

— Steve Ballmer

He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…

— Laozi

The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its…

— David Horowitz

I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect…

— Alan Bersin

I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even…

— Narciso Rodriguez

In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when…

— Mark Pesce

I often repeat three numbers: 20-23-26. Quebec generates only 20 per cent of Canada's wealth; it represents 23 per cent of the…

— Philippe Couillard

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it…

— Johanna Siguroardottir

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms…

— Richard Prince

Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach…

— Daniel Olivas

Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of…

— Emmanuel Macron

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service…

— Angela Carter

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is…

— Ronald Reagan

A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving…

— Wynn Bullock

What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like…

— Noam Chomsky

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

The term "globalization," like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings: its literal meaning, and a technical sense used for doctrinal…

— Noam Chomsky

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

— Dwight Yoakam

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

— Andrew Mason

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

— Johnny Depp

He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

— David Blatt

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

— Norbert Reithofer

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

— Richard Cobden

And ‘classically not beautiful’ is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

— Viola Davis