Term Quotes

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier

History, Victory, Means

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Life, Career, Stage

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
Kristen Stewart

Character, Long, Place

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
Thomas Frank

Amazing, Political, May

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
Joni Mitchell

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Ann Coulter

Peace, Blessed, Two

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Dennis Prager

Greatest, Evil, Humanity

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
Venus Williams

Nice, Saying, Took

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.
Paula Deen

Nice, Proud, Sweet

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Amy Winehouse

America, Here, Everyone

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Important, Sense

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
Twyla Tharp

Work, Moving, Challenge

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
Eliot Spitzer

Health, Government, Care

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
Gene Tierney

Young, Serious, Dream

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.
Jonathan Kozol

Children, Far, President

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
Rand Paul

Percent, Limits, Democrats

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
Evan Davis

Good, Long, May

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
Evan Davis

Christmas, Bad, Black

Nine in the box... that's a football term.
Ricky Williams

Football, Box, Nine

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone

Music, Black, White

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
Brad Holland

Life, Art, Everyday

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn

Care, Long, Short

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.
Jeffrey Kluger

May, Means, Language

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.
Caroline Kennedy

Different, Others, Sense

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

End, Dark, Child

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
Jordin Sparks

Time, Attitude, Negative

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.
Dick Cheney

Technology, Second, Iraq

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
Francois Hollande

Change, Society, Long

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
Francois Hollande

Mistakes, End, Give

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
Francois Hollande

Goal, Put, Getting

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