Term Quotes · Page 20

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

— Damien Hirst

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

— Graham Greene

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

— Jeff Vespa

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

— Russell Simmons

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

— Max Beerbohm

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

— Cecelia Ahern

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

— Julian Fellowes

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

— Anonymous

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

— Noam Chomsky

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

— Francois Hollande

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

— Larry Page

If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to…

— Tony Buzan

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't…

— John Hurt

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want…

— Katherine Dunham

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and…

— Andrew Solomon

In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame,…

— Russell Wilson

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a…

— Julia Cameron

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case…

— Michael Connelly

We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's…

— Aaron Korsh

In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best…

— Sara Benincasa

Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate…

— Muriel Fox

It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that…

— Alfred Kinsey

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build…

— Margaret Mead

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under…

— George Boole

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are…

— George Leonard

Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a…

— Ann Voskamp

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

— Steve Hagen

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

— Peter Mullan

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

— Peter Thiel

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

— John Lanchester

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

— Rob Lowe

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it

— Stephen Harper

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

— Anonymous