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Quotes About Terms

Well, ye're kind, too," he said, considering. "Verra kind. Though ye are inclined to do it on your own terms. Not that that's bad, mind," he added
~ Diana Gabaldon
Americans will not tolerate wars that can't be explained in simple terms of economics or the White man's destiny.
~ Ishmael Reed
Creative, exploratory learning requires peers currently puzzled about the same terms or problems.
~ Ivan Illich
traditionalists have already equivocated on fundamental definitions of key terms like translation and revelation. Clearly, there are other ways to construe the evidence, even for traditionalists.
~ Unknown
Music theorists have an arcane, rarified set of terms and rules that are as obscure as some of the most esoteric domains of mathematics.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
The Republican Party views Hispanics in terms of market share: Who are they? How do we reach them? Democrats still view us in terms of quotas.
~ Joe Garcia
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
~ David Kay
If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing.
~ Steven Bauer
theogony" and "cosmogony." What do they mean? In truth, these archaic Greek terms are quite simple, as well as interchangeable. The birth (-gony) of the world (cosmos) and the birth (-gony) of the gods (theo) are one and the same: the cosmogony, the birth of the cosmos, is also and reciprocally a theogony, a story about the origins of divinity.
~ Unknown
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
~ Michael Arad
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.
~ Hans Morgenthau
To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the terms of local abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.
~ Don DeLillo
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
~ J.M. Barrie
sorrow or a wound can heal, allowing us to grow into our fullest, most compassionate identity, our greatness of heart. When we truly come to terms with sorrow, a great and unshakable joy is born in our heart. HEALING
~ Jack Kornfield
Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.
~ Unknown
He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.
~ Madeline Miller
The terms were a complete vindication of England and the rebel lords, and a betrayal of Mary and her mother.
~ John Guy
Despite the humiliating terms of the treaty, Francis and Mary had to promise to ratify and fulfill all of its conditions
~ John Guy
Mary and Francis had not even been consulted about its terms
~ John Guy
To achieve a quick result, he found himself accepting terms that guaranteed Scotland's independence
~ John Guy
The home terms still apply. The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop granite. They say granodiorite when they are in church and granite the rest of the week.
~ John McPhee
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
~ John Dewey
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi