Quotes About Term

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

When things got a bit too drunk out, the Gin was famous for what Cletus liked to term "Redneck Olympics." He'd watched them at it more than once, and he knew better than to stick around when things started to run south of sane.

The technical term for this shotgun marriage of contrasting thoughts is antithesis, meaning "opposing idea.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Depression is, especially these days, an overused term to be sure, but never one associated with anything wild, anything about dancing all night with a lampshade on your head and then going home and killing yourself.

a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term philosopher.

Which brings us to hostility towards Islam and Muslims, which is now grouped under the umbrella term 'Islamophobia

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.

Brendon has always been a fan of pop music, but that's such a broad term, because I guess I would say I would be too, but in a different way.

I think the majority of politicians keep their positions for too long.

I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.

For one thing, they did not call themselves Pilgrims (that term was not widely used until about 1840). Nor were they fleeing immediate persecution.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

This woman was just as irritating to me as an irrational term that accidently creeps into your equation and can't be factored out.

When a solidly conservative party is taken over by its most extreme wing in a campaign that includes attacks that are no less vicious when aimed at that conservative party's mainstream pillars than they are at the opposition party, we think "radicalization" is an objectively appropriate term.

In the US, the technical term for a limited liability company is a 'corporation', which is ironic, because the term derives from 'corpus' ('body' in Latin) – the one thing these corporations lack.

The official term of the President was fixed at six instead of four years, and it was provided that he should not be eligible for reëlection. This was in accordance with the original draft of the Constitution of 1787.

Putting a stake in the ground that you're self-employed is important. It's the only term that accurately portrays your lifestyle and your business model.