Quotes About Terms

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Here were the terms of the de facto truce: as long as the special counsel and his people did not press him too far, the president would not yet confront them. And as long as Trump still had the power to carry out his threats to annihilate Mueller's team, they would not yet confront him.

Her professional life could thus be summarised as teaching contradictory absurdities to social-climbing cretins, even if she avoided formulating it to herself in such stark terms.

Firm commitment. One percent fee. Target date May eighth." "One percent?" Todd voiced Tara's own reaction. These deals usually went for six to seven percent, a point or two higher when there was a firm commitment, which meant the bank was responsible for buying any shares that didn't sell in the initial float. How had Harvey agreed to those terms, and how had Todd not known?

Two terms describing states of social pathology apply also to conditions that make flow difficult to experience: anomie and alienation. Anomie—

How do we redeem culture? We observe it and engage it on its terms and then demonstrate the message of Jesus through service and love.

This is what it means to engage culture: take it on its own terms. Claim truth wherever you find it and use it to lead others to Jesus--the source of all that is good, true, and beautiful.

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes. That's a showbiz term for "Add sugar to".

So my generation fell into the trap, internalizing the either/or as we thought of ourselves as 'hot' or 'cold' and falling victim, once again, to the terms by which our sex had been conveniently divided for so many years. To the degree that sex was the equivalent of the self, surrender to sex was to lose oneself, whereas abstinence would insure its safeguarding, if not its salvation (viv).

Rosie stood up. 'Is everything all right? Is Amy —' 'She's fine, Rosie.' They had long been on first-name terms. 'But there's been a change in today's schedule. Can you come and see the consultant now?

Sometimes it rains and other times clear skies, life is full of compensations. We must compromise to its terms and conditions; without complaining.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

The reactionary is that fool who possesses the vanity to judge history, and the immorality to come to terms with it.

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the development of weapons of destruction makes our present dilemma plain: we either come to terms with our unconscious instincts and drives—with life and with death—or else we surely die.

It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge followed by a long and as yet uncompleted process of coming to terms with the disasters it has produced and is still producing in many parts of the world.

With the excesses of the gender revolution the revolt against terms and categories becomes a revolt against reality, and all the rest of us are pressured to deny the obvious, believe in the incredible, and go along with the charade of the emperor's new clothes. ("Only a woman can get pregnant," but such truisms are now held to be false and offensive.)

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

Only priests and fools are fearless, and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

And like that black president, you'd think that after two terms of looking at a dude in a suit deliver the State of the Union address, you'd get used to square watermelons, but somehow you never do.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

The answer to the first question was too impossible even to contemplate, but I would have to come to terms with it eventually. You see, we were in Hell. We were both in Hell.

There is no simple solution how properly to translate the Hebrew ?adam or the Greek ????????. One of the meanings these terms carry refers simultaneously to humankind and human personhood—as collective and generic—but does so in a way that retains a particular and personal focus.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.