Quotes About Terms

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

The term numinous is like the terms substance, meaning, being, and a host of other terms; in the final analysis we can only define them in terms of themselves.

It is a sheer waste of time for these people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to threaten me with defeat for the Presidency next year. Nothing would hire me even to accept the Presidency if I had to take it on terms which would mean a forfeiting of self-respect.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

To understand contamination in modern terms we should think of purity as innocence.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

I have been fortunate that my commercials became famous and the best directors have managed to work on my terms. I didn't have to chase anyone.

In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.