Term Quotes

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

— Evan Esar

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

— Hannah More

The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.

— Anand Mahindra

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

— Johnny Miller

Honor is a term much used but little understood.

— Regina Maria Roche

I never liked the term 'fans.'

— Morten Harket

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

— Charles M. Schulz

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

— Mike McCready

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.

— Nancy Pelosi

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

— Andrew Weil

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

— John Templeton

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

— Bernadette Devlin

I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.

— Erik Spoelstra

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

— Ugo Betti

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

— Swami Vivekananda

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what…

— Yitzhak Rabin

Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy…

— James Cameron

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists…

— Ann Beattie

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own…

— Rick Riordan

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

— Rufino Tamayo

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and…

— Cass Sunstein

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an…

— Dan Ariely

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size…

— Francesca Woodman

Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team…

— Oliver Kahn

The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States, to the point where all the United…

— Mike Pence

Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external…

— Tom Hoover

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the…

— Melvin Laird

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate…

— John H. Sununu

The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…

— Antonio Damasio

Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all…

— Anonymous

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in…

— Carolyn Wheat

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life,…

— Madeleine Albright

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to…

— Arthur Curley

Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a…

— Richard Florida

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This…

— R. Buckminster Fuller