Term Quotes · Page 58

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

— Eben Pagan

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

— Andrew Garfield

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

— Chaim Weizmann

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to…

— Mike Tomlin

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

— Fred Williams

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

— George W. Bush

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long…

— Paul Achleitner

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

— Ambrose Bierce

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the…

— Gale Sayers

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

— Ray Dalio

With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like,…

— Mac DeMarco

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as…

— F. R. Leavis

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of…

— Rajneesh

An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without…

— Jim Herrick

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American…

— Madeleine Albright

In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any…

— Michael Denton

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But…

— Craig Thompson

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

I was a very introverted individual and this became an important outlet for me to express myself, to communicate, to take positions,…

— Ed Paschke

You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know,…

— Barack Obama

The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of…

— Maimonides

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected…

— Thomas Sowell

After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success.…

— Shahrukh Khan

Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long…

— Tim Field

I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or…

— Karin Tidbeck

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

— Rose McGowan

What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.

— Jim Ratcliffe

“Part of recovering your health is to break long-term toxic habits.”

— Steven Magee

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

— Bill McCartney

The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.

— Dave Barry

Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.

— Bill Rodgers

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

— Lindsey Graham