Term Quotes · Page 51

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

— Ben Feldman

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

— James Mark Baldwin

I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.

— John C. Dvorak

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

— Harrison Ford

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

— Andy Roddick

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach…

— Richard Rohr

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,

— Masahiro Sakurai

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

— Charles Baudelaire

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

— Robert Orben

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

— Thomas Jefferson

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

— Fernand Braudel

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He…

— Randall Kennedy

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring…

— Dougray Scott

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long…

— John Mulaney

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what…

— Patti Smith

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of…

— Mike Mason

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we…

— J. William Fulbright

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that…

— Rube Goldberg

To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to…

— Kenneth Keniston

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very…

— Grant Mudford

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.…

— Katie Aselton

Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My…

— Julia Stiles

. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations…

— David Rabe

Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States -…

— Michael Kergin

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The…

— Daniel Quinn

This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music…

— Lee Ranaldo

Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can…

— Albert Einstein

We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they…

— Richard Wiseman

Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the…

— Gabor Mate

Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

— Michala Petri

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

— Barbara Kruger

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

— Zac Goldsmith

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

— Jane Alison

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

— Patton Oswalt

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

— Helen Caldicott

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

— Bernard Beckett

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

— Maurice Saatchi