Quotes About Terms

Only by taking the strange on its own terms can we understand ourselves in time. This is the purpose of history, which my doctoral supervisor was taught then passed on to me. It remains the name of the game.

Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!

O fleeting joys of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mold me man, did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me, or here place in this delicious garden? As my will concurred not to my being, it were but right and equal to reduce me to my dust, desirous to resign, and render back all I received, unable to perform thy terms too hard, by which I was to hold the good I sought not.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

the comic inadequacy of consciousness trying to make terms with the rest of everything that is.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

The only serious debate in numbers terms is whether the death toll from coal is five hundred times worse than nuclear, or many thousands of times worse.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

There's all kinds of ways to die, and most of them don't involve actual death, just the handing over of the soul to fear and anger and greed. Or despair. Very few people have the guts to deal with life on life's terms.

This they gleaned from Muslims opposed to the Nizari Ismaili, who used various derogatory terms for them, such as Hashishiyya or Hashshashin.

Active and Passive Perfection are the Taoist equivalent of the sufi terms Majesty and Beauty.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the two most important events that happen to them – procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time.

Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule.

Consciousness of something is always consciousness of a difference between terms that are not given positively.

Some lasting terms of military organization owe their origin to Spain: colonel comes from cabo de colunela, or head of a column; infantry most likely comes from infante, the name for a Spanish prince, who often led these formations of foot soldiers.

It's like we kept trying to use the same rules," Greer said, "and these people kept saying to us, 'Don't you get it? I will not live by your rules.'" She took a breath. "They always get to set the terms. I mean, they just come in and set them. They don't ask, they just do it. It's still true.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Good industry analysis does not just list pluses and minuses but sees an industry in overall, systemic terms. P.29