Term Quotes · Page 21

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

— Dennis Potter

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.

— Robbie Earle

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

— T. D. Jakes

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

— Cullen Hightower

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

— Allen West

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

— Ian Mcewan

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

— Chuck D

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically…

— William James

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing…

— John George Nicolay

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines…

— Todd Akin

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they…

— El-P

Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country…

— Brian Donohoe

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

— Anson Jones

In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer".…

— Frank Lampard

Our missile technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of…

— Donald Trump

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways -…

— Larry Page

When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you…

— Jeremy Grantham

The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for…

— Low Thia Khiang

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by…

— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe…

— Jeff Bezos

Somebody once said that the ideal size of a country for democracy to work is around 10 million people - and that…

— Johan Renck

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated…

— Anonymous

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay…

— George Will

The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy…

— Phil Harding

I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I…

— Van Morrison

This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print…

— Salman Rushdie

Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum…

— Leonhard Euler

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and…

— Jessica Valenti

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

— Winston Churchill

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

— Sherman Alexie

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

— Charles Bukowski

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

— Anonymous

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

— Camille Paglia

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

— Stephen Harper

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

— Chaka Fattah