Terms Quotes
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Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
Anthony Standen -
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
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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.
Michael Levitt -
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 -
Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us.
Eran Riklis -
And if this wasn’t the happiness she had once so fiercely demanded, at least she had come to terms with life. That was probably as close to happiness as you could get.
Bel Kaufman -
I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.
George Perle -
Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
George Emil Palade -
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker -
A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
George Michael -
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
Erwin Schrodinger -
I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
Johnny Depp
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If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
Harrison Ford -
Travel lets you pretend that the world didn’t really change, that you just chose your terms.
Ekaterina Sedia -
And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.
Michael Emerson -
I want to go out on my terms.
Misty May-Treanor -
When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.
Evan Wolfson -
If a person’s inclined to look for something, he finds it wherever he looks. Even if there’s no trace of it at all, he still finds clear evidence. Even if there’s not even a shadow, still he sees not only a shadow of what he’s looking for but everything he’s looking for. He sees it in the most unmistakable terms, and these terms become clearer with each new glance and every new thought.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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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.
Norman Spinrad -
Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
Robert Wise -
Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
Joshua Harris -
It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.
Boyd K. Packer