Term Quotes · Page 59

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've found my true calling in life, and I'm living life on my terms.

— Kai Greene

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

— Christina Aguilera

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

— Graydon Carter

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

— Adolf Hitler

Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

— Mitch Hedberg

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and…

— Loretta Lux

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

— Maria Bamford

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new…

— Dan Aykroyd

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in…

— Sean Parker

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it.…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't…

— Cory Doctorow

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of…

— Lauren Groff

Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous. . . . But I . . . know that remembering…

— H. David Burton

Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter…

— Wayne Dyer

As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take…

— Bill Gates

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of…

— Noam Chomsky

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the…

— Akio Morita

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper…

— Wilbur Ross

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been…

— Tim Berners-Lee

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one…

— Jared Harris

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or…

— Charles M. Schulz

Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and…

— Pope John Paul II

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions…

— Dalai Lama

Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much…

— Dan Ariely

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a…

— Marilyn Frye

I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a…

— Ben Katchor

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

— Carey Mulligan

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

— John Adams

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

— Tony Blair

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

— Andrew W.K

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

— Ron Paul

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

— Stephen Hawking

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

— Peter Senge