Term Quotes · Page 52

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

— Bill Bryson

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

— Italo Zucchelli

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

— C. S. Lewis

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

— Saul Williams

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

— Bell Hooks

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

— Dana Gould

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

— Anne Sweeney

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always…

— Edward Hirsch

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian…

— V. K. Krishna Menon

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

— Franz Grillparzer

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge…

— Harriet Lerner

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything.…

— Iggy Pop

I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel…

— Rian Johnson

Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term…

— Sharon Gannon

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the…

— Emile Durkheim

The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever…

— Tom Hiddleston

To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape…

— Barack Obama

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a…

— Robert M. Pirsig

In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith…

— Tim Kaine

Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed…

— Adam Gollner

We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this…

— Veronika Varekova

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes…

— Pema Chodron

First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two…

— David Miliband

I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach…

— Malcolm X

We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her…

— Barack Obama

I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]…

— Van Jones

We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal…

— Nathaniel Branden

I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a…

— Dave Douglas

My biggest goal was - I thought, God, if I could just be a rep company member at the Arena Stage in…

— Lauren Graham

I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that…

— Sinead O'Connor

On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that…

— Fred Hoyle

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

— Dana Perino

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

— Joseph Estrada

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

— Anthony Kiedis

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

— Fanny Fern

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

— Venus Williams

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

— Ishmael Beah

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

— Jonah Lehrer