Top 100 Term Quotes
#1. After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).
Quentin R. Bufogle
#2. I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
Zayn Malik
#3. What do you want to know?
Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D
I'm 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I've had one long-term serious relationship ...
Arden Aoide
#4. The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
Larry Craig
#5. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
#6. What I am looking for ... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
Joan Miro
#7. I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
Adam Arkin
#8. I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
Danielle Fishel
#9. Sometimes the best decisions were the ones with the most short-term unhappiness
Sierra Simone
#10. Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Parenting is a marathon, and we have to remember our long-term goal of raising beautiful people who love God and others.
Kristen Welch
#13. You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.
Christopher Monckton
#14. We have to look at the long-term energy requirements of our country and how we figure out how to get off foreign oil. That is the ultimate goal because we are dependent so much on foreign oil that we are really strapped in what we can do as a country.
Mark Begich
#15. There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.
Milos Zeman
#16. The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.
Robin Marantz Henig
#17. So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.
Mario Monti
#18. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
Wendell Berry
#19. When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government to be transferred to state governments.
Steve Hanke
#20. What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
William Shenstone
#21. Thanks to President Obama, I am able to get medical treatment in the USA for the long term effects of very high altitude sickness and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.
Steven Magee
#22. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#23. As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.
Scott McCloud
#24. Conchar is an ancient Gaelic term for those who admire the king of all hunters: the wolf.
To some, the wolf is a magnificent beast, the pinnacle of predatory evolution. To others, the wolf is a thing of nightmare.
Matt Hilton
#25. It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.
Woody Harrelson
#26. Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
Macklemore
#27. It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
Rand Paul
#28. If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.
Stephanie Cutter
#29. Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
Evan Davis
#30. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis
#31. In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline
Benjamin Graham
#32. Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one's insanities.
Coco J. Ginger
#33. The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin
#34. Guilt is a relative term, as are fairness, justice, and punishment.
Brian Haig
#35. A business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term thinking is a business that's unable to invest in the future. And a business that isn't investing in tomorrow's opportunities and technologies - well, that's a company already in the process of dying.
Reid Hoffman
#36. When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.
Leander Paes
#37. You'll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term "product" all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
David Fincher
#38. When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
Bill Gates
#39. When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.
Rickson Gracie
#40. Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.
Alex Steffen
#41. I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.
Marion Barry
#42. Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
Indra Nooyi
#43. If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Bruno Latour
#44. The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
Robert Carlyle
#45. I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day.
Kristin Hannah
#46. You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
John Mulaney
#47. To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
William Whewell
#48. ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser
Lewis Carroll
#49. Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.
Michael Josephson
#50. The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
Vivek Wadhwa
#51. The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.
Hillary Clinton
#52. There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!
Johnny Depp
#53. The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
Laurie Anderson
#54. I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.
David S.Goyer
#55. When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#56. Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
Ian McEwan
#57. Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.
John H Richardson
#58. I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
Tim O'Reilly
#59. they not that Allaah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is Able to create the like of them. And He has decreed for them an appointed term, whereof there is not doubt. But the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.) refuse (the truth the Message of Islaamic Monotheism, and
Muhammad Muhsin Khan
#60. We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
Freeman Dyson
#61. I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
Masayoshi Son
#62. The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.
Michael Scheuer
#63. Does the business have favourable long term prospects?
Warren Buffett
#64. In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. Pritzker
#65. Whatever the Garden had once been, now it was seething with corruption. Abundant life. It makes me laugh, in retrospect. Mr. Faust, did you know that there's a medical term for abundant life? For cellular life bursting out of control and running wild.
Craig Schaefer
#66. The Term "a Criminal Lawyer" Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron
Carsten Stroud
#67. Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.
Marjorie Garber
#68. We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.
George Pataki
#69. Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.
John Nolte
#70. Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
Seth Klarman
#71. A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
Orrin Woodward
#72. I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,
Aaron Schock
#73. It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,
Alan Kay
#74. The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.
Robert Stone
#75. Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.
Laurie Graham
#76. Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#78. I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.
Jamie Dimon
#79. American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11
Frans De Waal
#80. In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.
Douglas Brinkley
#81. To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.
Xi Jinping
#82. As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.
Gary Johnson
#83. The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me ... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
Bruce Springsteen
#84. I just realized that you may not know what 'fin' means. It is a filmmaking term. Specifically, it is French for 'This movie is over, which is good, because it probably confused the hell out of you, because it was made by French people.
Jesse Andrews
#85. of elective office), the yearly term was voted in.
Stephen King
#86. Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.
Adam Levine
#87. With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved.
Mark Steyn
#88. In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.
Joni Ernst
#89. My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.
Robert W. Floyd
#90. We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.
John Barrasso
#91. After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.
Demetri Martin
#92. The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
Michael Burgess
#93. We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
Heather Wilson
#94. If I'm super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it's not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes.
We're screwed.
Susan Ee
#95. In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
Bill Gates
#96. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.
Patton Oswalt
#98. In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
Andy Garcia
#99. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
Joseph Barbera
#100. Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
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