Terms Quotes

• Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Research
  • Cause
  • Effect

• You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Fact
  • Expect

• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Responsibility
  • Pressure
  • Terms

• Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Terms

• I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Think
  • Terms
  • Cliché

• 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.

  

  Michael Levitt
  • Become
  • Recognized
  • Large

• They're doing a good job moving toward the higher-growth businesses in terms of wireless and high-speed access, and they've shown a very respectable outcome.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Businesses
  • Wireless
  • Higher-growth

• Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Independence
  • Terms
  • Civil Disobedience

• 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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Quality
  • Terms
  • Indicate

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Terms

• 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.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Technology
  • Terms
  • Human Consciousness

• Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Institutions
  • Terms
  • Appealing

• 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.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Generation
  • Numbers
  • Abraham Lincoln

• In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie Smith once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Stars
  • Billy Connolly
  • Pauline Collins

• The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

  

  Stokely Carmichael
  • Define
  • Terms
  • Free People

• 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.

  

  Andrew Evans
  • Terms
  • Outcome
  • Transfer

• We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Life
  • Live
  • Accept

• I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poem
  • Contradiction
  • Terms

• Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Understand
  • Scientists
  • Terms

• Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Things
  • Terms

• Musically Bob Dylan is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

  

  Al Kooper
  • Music
  • Terms
  • Uses

• If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Positive
  • Results
  • Terms

• That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Use
  • Terms

• Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that “arrogant,” “headstrong,” “narcissistic,” and “cold” will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Qualities
  • Advance
  • Institution

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