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Quotes About Term

To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.
~ Emily Dickinson
Although he's never seen again on the show, Roderick is the first designer to use the term "homework" while talking to the homeowners about what needs to be done before the next morning. However, this is not the standard "homework assignment" scene that appears in later episodes. (Season 1, Episode4)
~ Amy Tincher-Durik
The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'
~ Michelle Dean
For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don't get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you're past a certain age, you're not relevant. That's the kind of cliched term.
~ Boy George
Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
~ Nick Clooney
We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.
~ Martin Jacques
Legend is a term bandied about too much in football, but in Premier League terms Sergio Aguero is an absolute legend.
~ Paul Merson
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
~ Mo Ibrahim
I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.
~ Steven Soderbergh
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
~ James Murphy
What is a Fuhrungsspieler? I don't like the term. For me there is not a clear definition of the term.
~ Philipp Lahm
I'm not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don't know when they're leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.
~ Jovenel Moise
Over time "Pikers" became accepted as a term that referred to people who were slow of speech, plodding, and not ambitious in business.
~ Rinker Buck
July 1900, several months after completing the term of exile, he went abroad again and entered the recently founded Russian Social Democratic Workers' party's leadership as one of the editors of Iskra (The Spark)—a new foreign-based party organ that he himself had done much to organize.
~ Robert C. Tucker
I used the term naked in front of put option because I did not own the stock.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
~ Tim Minchin
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
~ Charles Richet
She used to call me garbage truck
~ Aimee Bender
How'd you do that?" Riker gasped as he followed Scott out into the dim corridor. "Oh, you'd have to take my course in alternative signals at the academy. New term starts in September." "Scotty, you're a miracle worker." "No, lad, I'm an engineer.
~ Diane Carey
The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […] On the face of it, the term "web platform" seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross?platform.
~ Jeremy Keith
At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath".
~ Erik Larson
No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper.
~ Erik Larson
The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.
~ Eugene L. Lowry