Term Quotes

• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Believe
  • Aim

• Rekindled love is generally short – term.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rekindled

• Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Time
  • Running

• I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Artist
  • My Own
  • Pace

• I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Long
  • Character
  • Long-term

• when you look at setting your mind on things above in terms of heaven...It means being who I was always created to be in the real light of Jesus-the person I was actually created to know.

  

  Phil Wickham
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Mean

• The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Irritates

• 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

  

  Wilfrid
  • Together
  • Understand
  • Philosophy

• The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Values
  • Morality
  • Justify

• Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Economy
  • Security

• I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Refuse

• I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Planning

• There's no term to the work of a scientist.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Work
  • Term
  • Scientist

• I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  

  Peter William Ham Badfinger
  • Long
  • Father
  • Musician

• I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Hate
  • Term
  • Philanthropist

• The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Long
  • Society
  • Welfare

• Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Mind
  • Waiting
  • Speak

• The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Term
  • Palestinian
  • Oxymoron

• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Philosophy

• I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

  

  Martin Mull
  • People
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Surprise

• The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Design
  • Intelligent
  • Natural

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