Term Quotes · Page 29

I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections.

— Barack Obama

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

— Tom Coburn

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

— Rosanne Cash

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

— Peter Drucker

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

— Robert Plant

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

— James Longstreet

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

— Gloria Steinem

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

— John Lyall

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to…

— Shirin Ebadi

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older…

— Patricia Arquette

I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more…

— Isaiah Washington

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

— John Boorman

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard…

— Gary North

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk…

— Steve Jobs

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price…

— Anthony Browne

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of…

— Noam Chomsky

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the…

— Akio Morita

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper…

— Wilbur Ross

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months…

— Peter Lynch

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of…

— Jane Jacobs

I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going…

— David Oyelowo

There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think…

— William Howard Taft

The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not…

— Michael Gurian

I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can…

— Joe Robert Cole

America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're…

— Bill McKibben

I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the…

— Momus

There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy…

— Leonard Peltier

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.

— Michael W. Smith

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

— Richard Rogers

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

— William Greider

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

— Paul Ryan

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

— Patrick Rothfuss

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

— Studs Terkel

To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.

— Jay Sankey