Term Quotes · Page 30

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

— Winston Churchill

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

— Tucker Max

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

— Walter Schloss

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Karen Armstrong

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

— Mike Dooley

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...

— Ansel Adams

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

— Rebecca Mead

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the…

— Luis de Guindos

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

— Randy Pausch

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want…

— Bill Gates

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms…

— DJ Spooky

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong…

— Peter Singer

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from…

— Steven Spielberg

Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain…

— Frederick Lenz

Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what…

— John F. Kennedy

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for…

— Betty Friedan

The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a…

— Damian Thompson

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.…

— Elie Wiesel

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a…

— Steve Ballmer

Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the…

— Merle Hoffman

I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when…

— Anna Quindlen

China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played…

— Hu Jintao

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self…

— Rory Vaden

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also…

— Reid Hoffman

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more…

— James Madison

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm…

— Richard Rodriguez

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…

— C. S. Lewis

On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to…

— William J. Clinton

I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in…

— Howard Warren Buffett

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:…

— Che Guevara

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

— Clayton Christensen

CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

— Joe Barton

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

— Frank Spotnitz

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

— Christopher Eccleston

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

— Louis Untermeyer

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

— Stefon Harris

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

— Garry Shandling