Term Quotes

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

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

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.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand.

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

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

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

One must love a poet on its own terms.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.