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Terms Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in…
- The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love…
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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… — David Attenborough
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
- The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. — Dennis Banks
- For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. — Gerry Adams