Term Quotes · Page 63

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build…

— Margaret Mead

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

— Jack Welch

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to…

— Daley Thompson

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

— Oscar Wilde

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between…

— Peter Drucker

In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers…

— Edgar Wright

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of…

— Joe Klein

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes…

— Seth MacFarlane

“The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term…

— Matthew Arnold

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of…

— Daniel Goleman

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your…

— Clemence Poesy

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy…

— Will Self

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating…

— Dwight Garner

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth…

— Janet Yellen

Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the…

— Paul Hawken

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

— Ari Fleischer

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in…

— Grace Lee Boggs

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one…

— Amity Shlaes

What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all…

— Jack Zipes

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of…

— Harold Pinter

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly…

— William Greider

The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not…

— Ari Fleischer