Term Quotes
4400 quotes by 3131 authors
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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms…
— David Attenborough
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
— Chinua Achebe
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
— Margaret Atwood
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
— Teresa of Avila
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the…
— Dan Aykroyd
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those…
— Charles Babbage
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During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
— Michele Bachmann
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
— Lord Acton
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish…
— Christian Bale
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I…
— Christian Bale
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
— Dennis Banks
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My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was…
— Tyra Banks
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms…
— Henry Adams
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term.…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion,…
— Bob Beauprez
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment…
— Ben Bernanke
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