Term Quotes · Page 36

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

— John F. Kennedy

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

— Kelley Armstrong

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

— Seth Klarman

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

— Paloma Faith

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

— Bill Plympton

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense…

— Emily Giffin

I've always hated the word spirituality, but now I accept the word, and I think it's a useful term. It just means…

— Diego Cortez

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and…

— Christine Lagarde

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going…

— David Axelrod

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of…

— Frances O'Grady

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove…

— Christopher Hitchens

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…

— Ralph Ellison

“But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to…

— Mark A. Rayner

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many…

— Eugene O'Neill

In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli…

— Jill Stein

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence,"…

— Paulo Coelho

The economic sanctions are absolutely going to hurt Russia's economy. They're hurting some of his key inner sanctum. But they are not…

— Clarissa Ward

Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk…

— Yao Ming

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based…

— Chris Hedges

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through…

— Pierre Omidyar

The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I…

— Jancee Dunn

The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,…

— Denis Hayes

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing…

— Edmund Burke

Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or…

— Tim Wu

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people…

— Sasha Abramsky

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like…

— Sue Monk Kidd

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like…

— Noam Chomsky

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

— Luke Pritchard

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

— Conrad Black

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

— Jan Garbarek

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

— Rudolf Virchow

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

— Kelly McGonigal

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

— Matt Taibbi

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

— James Patterson

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

— Eric Topol