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

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

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

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.
Neale Donald Walsch

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

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S. Grant

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
Hillary Clinton

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
William J. Clinton

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
Marc Jacobs

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Jonas Salk

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke