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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Strange, Fact, Talking

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius

Year, Teach, Trees

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Fair, Villain

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Doubt, Speaking

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

Great, Learn, Interested

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Technology, Important

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

Future, Live, Past

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth

Life, Future, Live

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

Religion, Time, Morning

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone

Life, Success, Best

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
Charlie Sheen

Try, Energy, Around

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Important

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Henry Moore

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Positive, Negative, Genius

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack Obama

Work, History, Done

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Time, Money, Freedom

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Doubt, Secret, Defined

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler

Friendly, Until, Eat

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Person, Living

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Effort, Worth, Knowing

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Denis Waitley

Life, Done, Thoughts

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman

Time, Everything, Learned

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

Success, Human, Her

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.
Sanjay Dutt

Real, Friendly, Person

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Explaining, Centuries, Unknowable

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill Gates

Success, High, Color

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Strong, Live

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