Best Term Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.”

“Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.”

Important Dream Opportunity Individual Growth Term Generations Economic Promise American Dream Prosperous Economic Growth

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“I want to go out on my terms.”

Want Term

Author:Misty May-Treanor

“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Important Running House Term Race Areas Locals Representatives House Of Representatives Reelection

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.”

Long Term Four Periods Long Term Long Periods Of Time

Author:Rose McGowan

“A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.”

Way Kind Might Turns Term Changed Approach Treats Cancer Breasts Internals Breast Cancer Anatomy Resemblance Reorganization Gastric

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.”

Thinking Kind Term Wonderful Cold Disease Normal Incredibles Cancer Cells Wonderful Things Reminders Duality

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”

People Way Spiritual Energy Term My Own Focus Crisis Obsession Spiritual Crisis

Author:Jodie Foster

“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.”

Should Spiritual Term Common Christianity Environment Immortality Organized Heritage Spiritual Life Correspondence

Author:Albert J. Nock

“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.”

People America Given Term Gone Four Cutting Taxes Congress Scales Income Relief Tax Cuts

Author:Richard Neal

“If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.”

Ifs Mean Faces Term Victory Guides Scandal Inertia

Author:Ron Fournier

“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.”

Thinking Giving Term Moral Aspect Catholic Fundamentals Raised Glad Code Grounding Moral Code

Author:Frances O'Connor

“If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.”

Ifs Long Wanted America Term Radical Long Term Sugar Salt Radical Change

Author:Jamie Oliver

“Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?”

Should Faces Waiting Term Too Much Asking Barack Carving Mount Rushmore Asking Too Much

Author:Ron Fournier

“One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.”

Term Identity Narrative Immigrants Shed

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.”

President Term Building Victory Campaigns Thanks Barack Guarantees Bores Behalf Consensus Headache Mandates

Author:Ron Fournier

“Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.”

Long Faces Social Term Security Long Term Social Security Deficit

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

Firsts Care Term Humility Building Capable Reform Health Care Traits Mandates Health Care Reform

Author:Ron Fournier

“In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.”

Stories Faces Term Justice Inspired Seeking Saving Treatment Survivor

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.”

Term Happened Harder Former Grandfather My Grandfather Yugoslavia

Author:Tea Obreht

“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”

People Knows Writing Has Beens Mother Term Careers Influence Huge Grandmother My Grandmother Supportive Writing Life

Author:Tea Obreht

“I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.”

People Thinking I Can Process Term Records Unhappy Jaded

Author:Will Oldham

“I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.”

Term Space Creative Havens Internet Comedian Ownership Stand Up Comedian

Author:Kevin Pollak

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Short-term can be terminal.”

Term Business Profit Finance Short Term Terminal

Book:What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive

Source: What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive

“To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.”

Process Term Results Democracy Consequence Oneself Definitions Practicals Characteristics Unwanted

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”

“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”

Mean Reality Inspiration Together Values Spirituality Term Space Higher All Things Bases Symbols Overwhelming Inward Stagnation Cultivating Spiritual Values Living Reality

Author:Leonardo Boff

“I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.”

Kind Stills God Dream Voice Term All Kinds Revelations Coincidence Small Voice

Author:M. Scott Peck

“I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.”

People Writing Believe Mean Funny I Believe Term Conversation Thoughtful Online Journal Blogs Blogging

Author:Michael Arrington

“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!”

Way Believe Ends Funny Found I Believe Term Hours Flower Conversation Importance Intimate Thoughtful Clients Uncertain Funny Things Urgency Niche Blogging Intimate Conversation

Author:Tom Peters

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

Way Seems Moving Term Nature Tree Woods Mysterious Redemption Metaphysical Static Inspirational Nature Mysterious Ways Inspiring Nature

Author:John Fowles

“I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.”

Thinking Together Term Groups Banding Together

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“I have a long-term interest in the humanities.”

Long Humanity Term Interest Long Term

Author:Jim Leach

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

Thinking Needs Term Industry Safe Capacity Resilience Our Family Rely Inner Strength Occupation Immune Rely Upon Resourcefulness

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

Thinking Hard Feelings Term Strange Scene Happenings Strange Places

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.”

Long States Government Term United United States Modern Benefits Islam Evolve Long Term Constraints

Author:Daniel Pipes

“I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.”

Believe Long Term Company Leader Economy Long Term Digital Commerce E Commerce

Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Important Real Facts Political Term Information Communicate Hungry Dialogue Discussion Rhetoric Proposal Political Rhetoric

Author:John Podesta

“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.”

Wells Government Choices Next Term Differences Clear Development Election International Seats Labour Contests

Author:Lucy Powell

“I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.”

Ifs Long I Can Stories Film Literature Term Fantasy Realistic Allegory Synthetic

Author:Manuel Puig

“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.”

Real President Term Class Economy Activity Office Criminals Distinction Executives 80s Robbery Shallowness Class Distinction Bank Robbery

Author:Martha Plimpton

“But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.”

Light Action Term Economy Economic Information Exercise Agents Ruling Incentives Transmit

Book:The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

Source: The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.”

Way Term Animal Movement Fine League Rays Realism Naturalism

Author:Nick Park

“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.”

“There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.”

Sometimes Sides President Term Democratic Expected Campaigns President Obama Guessing Second Guessing Sniping

Author:Rob Portman

“Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.”

Years Two Term Records Huge Industry Amount Two Years Itunes Spotify

Author:Sean Parker

“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”

Thinking Doe Term Religious Century Hypocrisy Victorian Slang Puritanism

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

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