Term Quotes

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.