Term Quotes · Page 50

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

— Stephan Pastis

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

— Jim Rohn

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

— Lorne Michaels

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

— Gaston Bachelard

To me the term "sexual feedom" meant freedom from having sex.

— Jane Wagner

In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large.

— James Halliday

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

— Mark Steyn

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

— T. Harv Eker

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all…

— Ha-Joon Chang

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an…

— Paul Johnson

It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.

— Frederick Lenz

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

— Yoshihiko Noda

Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave…

— Naomie Harris

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me…

— Jess Walter

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms…

— Raph Koster

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish…

— Philip Kitcher

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is…

— Mike Figgis

Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the…

— Will Self

Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s…

— Daniel Clowes

In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…

— Anthony Giddens

I can tell that sometimes I live a very good moment and I'm very joy- ful and optimistic, so I can see…

— Frida Giannini

The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God…

— John G. Lake

Don't make the body fit into the clothes. It really is, it's really respecting an individual and trying to cater to that…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I think all three of those men [James Mattis, Mike Pompeo and Rex Tillerson] that you just mentioned, depending on what deal…

— John Lewis

...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do.…

— Lil B

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

— Christopher Eccleston

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

— Tim Kaine

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

— Kevin Sessums

Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

— Andy Bechtolsheim

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

— Homaro Cantu

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

— Helen Fisher

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

— Louise Bourgeois

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.”

— Sun Tzu