Term Quotes · Page 55

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

— Dhani Harrison

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

— Max Ehrmann

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

— Rick Pitino

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

— Tracey Emin

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

— Johnny Damon

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just…

— Patricia Piccinini

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else…

— Pete Sampras

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

— Steve Almond

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

— Dov Davidoff

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

— David Mitchell

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

— Genco Gulan

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the…

— George Clooney

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

— Henry Paulson

One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but…

— Edward Glaeser

I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer,…

— Frederick Buechner

Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't…

— Adrian Tomine

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not…

— Jeremy Grantham

He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but…

— Michael Cunningham

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms…

— Oscar Wilde

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It…

— Loretta Sanchez

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our…

— Pema Chodron

Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond.…

— Walter Wink

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life…

— Betty Friedan

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time…

— Quentin Tarantino

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is…

— Slavoj Žižek

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

— Nat Hentoff

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

— Vera Nazarian

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

— E. L. James

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I consider 'groupie' a sexist term, and I think it's misused.

— Bebe Buell

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

— Warren Buffett