Term Quotes · Page 308

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They…

— Charlie Sheen

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…

— Wendell Berry

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything…

— Tommy James

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people,…

— Dalai Lama

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…

— Thomas Szasz

I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just…

— Steve Ballmer

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when…

— Banksy

The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like…

— Elizabeth Wein

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency…

— Marisa Silver

Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally…

— William Eckhardt

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

— Harry Browne

With the arrival of the refugees in 2015, it became impossible to ignore that the period of uninterrupted sunshine that Germany had…

— Joschka Fischer

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are…

— Dalai Lama

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

— Paul Fussell

I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships…

— Sutton Foster

"Beach." It's a very loose term now. Pretty widely used term. And that's awesome, but I guess my California experience is different…

— Ty Segall

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be…

— Rob Delaney

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the…

— Jon Stewart

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women,…

— Junot Diaz

Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and…

— Charles Hard Townes

When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds…

— Jennifer Higdon

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison]…

— Freddie Hubbard

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

— Bernard of Clairvaux