Terms Quotes
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Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.
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I don't even know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.
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Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.
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We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
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Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.
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Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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Musically Bob Dylan is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very large field, and it's always in some ways been the poor sister, or the ugly sister, to experimental biology.
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I want to die on my own terms.
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Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
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A decision to proceed with the restricted transfer notice will be made when the outcome of the market stand is known and the terms have been determined.
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The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.
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Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
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Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.
