Term Quotes · Page 198

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing…

— C. S. Lewis

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Rick Grenell, who is an old U.N. hand, talk on Fox News about really pressing to see if the Iranians are violating…

— George Stephanopoulos

I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major…

— Tilda Swinton

I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked…

— Norbert Reithofer

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part…

— Rachel Carson

I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self…

— Andy Griffiths

I think in its own small way, it did push people to be more accepting of different kinds of music. It definitely…

— Jancee Dunn

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

— Anonymous

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

— Graydon Carter

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the…

— Tom Coburn

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently…

— Jim Clifton

Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in…

— Lewis Schiff

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow…

— Wayne Knight

This is a derivative, if you will, of Cloward-Piven [theory]. "[Stephen] Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated 'strike' on mortgage,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

— Martin Luther

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

— Dick Gregory

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

— Megan Smith

In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an…

— David Gray

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their…

— Tom Devine

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and…

— D. A. Carson

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

— Joseph Rotblat

I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock…

— Jacob Bannon

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I work on everything all at once, which is maybe the worst way to go about it. But I think that actually…

— Jonathon Keats

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a…

— Ann Coulter

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in…

— Terry Eagleton

One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody…

— Roy Blunt

I think the establishment donor class has begun to crumble. They`re searching for [Marco] Rubio, trying to get some momentum there. But…

— Ted Cruz

We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's…

— Michael Neill

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call…

— Marya Hornbacher

From Richard Holbrooke - and I miss him every day - I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off…

— Samantha Power

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

— Noam Chomsky

Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well?…

— David Salle

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

— John Friend

Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to…

— Kevin O'Leary

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

— Karen Armstrong

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt…

— Jenny Shipley

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

— Kajol