Terms Quotes
We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
Arthur Rubinstein
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
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
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.
Michael Nesmith
The Monkees
Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
Walter Millis
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
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
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.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale
Musically Bob Dylan is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
Al Kooper
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
Stokely Carmichael
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
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I want to die on my own terms.
Brittany Maynard
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
Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
Anthony Standen
I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
Johnny Depp
