Term Quotes · Page 38

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

— Jonathan Ames

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

— Margaret Thatcher

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

— Damien Hirst

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

— Jeremy Grantham

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

— Stephen Covey

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

— Tony Snow

The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.

— Bob Buckhorn

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

— John Ruskin

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has…

— Jon Meacham

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or…

— John Baldessari

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

— Alessandro Baricco

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena…

— Noam Chomsky

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to…

— Barack Obama

I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff...…

— Pooja Bhatt

I'm not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda…

— Ryan Kwanten

In terms of the characters, I definitely do look for somebody that I think people can learn from and I can learn…

— Emmy Rossum

I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of…

— Michael Chiklis

“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal…

— Sophie Kinsella

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

— Carl Sagan

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's…

— Rick Perlstein

The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in…

— Richard Dooling

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the…

— Tim Wise

My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political…

— Jose Mujica

I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall.…

— Zoe Kazan

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines,…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God's perfect control and management of the universe. He preserves and governs every…

— Max Lucado

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own…

— Barbara Deming

People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform…

— Brandon Sanderson

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But…

— Diane Lane

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

— Al Kooper

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

— Sun Tzu

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

— Joe Theismann

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

— Duane Michals

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

— James Gleick