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Quotes About Terms

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
~ Unknown
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
By the way, the representatives of power invariably come to terms with those who live within the truth by persistently ascribing utilitarian motivations to them – a lust for power or fame or wealth – and thus they try, at least, to implicate them in their own world, the world of general demoralization.)
~ Vaclav Havel
dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to thicken the water of my Discourse so that it was no longer easy or familiar. I would chuse a huge lushious Style! vannbrugghe. (Interrupting) Ah the music of Erudition, it is unimaginable to weaker Wits. dyer. (Ignoring him) I would imploy outlandish Phrases and fantasti-call Terms, thus to restore Terrour, Reverence and Desire like wild Lightning.
~ Peter Ackroyd
time having transformed his own body into a storehouse for man-made contraptions designed to fend off collapse... there was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us.
~ Philip Roth
i have no idea what truth has to do with love, and vice versa. i'm not even thinking in terms of love here. it's way, way, way early for that. but i guess i am thinking in terms of truth. i want this to be truthful. and even as i protest to tiny and i protest to myself, the truth is becoming increasingly clear. it's time for us to figure out how the hell this is ever going to work.
~ David Levithan
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.
~ David Sedaris
There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
~ Howard Thurman
John Maynard Keynes urged re-negotiation of the terms. In his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919, he said that: 'Great privation and great risks to society have become unavoidable.' A new approach was needed to 'promote the re-establishment of prosperity and order, instead of leading us deeper into misfortune.
~ Unknown
It was ironic that even in promising to end aid dependence, Pakistan's leaders sought trade on easier terms instead of retooling their economy to expand trade as many other countries have been able to do.
~ Husain Haqqani
the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
~ Cory Doctorow
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
~ J. Reuben Clark
We are seeing a lot of cases where the startups are writing the term sheet, dictating the terms, selling common stock instead of preferred stock, where they don't give the investor veto rights or board seat or privileges, and they are really asking the investor -- why should I take your money when there is other money available.
~ Naval Ravikant
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
~ Susan Sontag
Bychan: little one Cariad: sweetheart, beloved one Annwyl:
~ Lisa Kleypas
How did your meeting go?" "The lease is signed," he said, going to pour a glass of wine for himself at the sideboard. "Did he agree to your terms?" "The most important ones." "Congratulations," she said sincerely. "I had no doubt that you would prevail." Devon smiled. "I had more than a few doubts. Severin is infinitely more experienced at business. However, I tried to compensate with pure stubbornness.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Urge to come to terms with the Outside, by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.
~ Jim Morrison
Never apply terms and conditions in your relationships; because they will change into contracts and contracts can be terminated any time.
~ Unknown
Single, taken, in a relationship; are all just terms. Your status is measured by your actions.
~ Unknown
And that I relinquished my share in the inheritance; inasmuch as during the last years I had lived in great discord with my father, I felt I did not have a right to anything that was his, and for that matter I did not covet it. You will agree with me that this puts a definite stop to all disagreements with my family. So there is an end of them, and otherwise I am on quite good terms with those at home.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms
~ Voltaire
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
~ Voltaire
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Perhaps one day I'd be made a saint—the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same.
~ Rachel Caine