Best 659 quotes in «term quotes» category

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

Obamacare is a disaster. If you look at even Canada, the people come down. When they want an operation, they come to the United States to get the operation. You look at what's going on. It is a disaster in terms of cost, of course.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

One of the things that makes this show unique, in terms of an experience, is that when you do a show that has a large cast, scheduling is a very difficult thing.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it.

People evaluate you in terms of how you handle things going forward.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't do. Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.