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My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.
Alanis Morissette

Parents, Idea, Possible

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson

Peace, Sometimes, Blood

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic

Fight, Nothing, Big

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Friendship, God, Nothing

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann

Sense, Makes, Behavior

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
Lady Gaga

Life, Live, Real

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
James Taylor

Moving, Important, Everything

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Lily Tomlin

Mean, Whatever, Act

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison

Wrong, Opinion, Popular

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Madeleine Albright

Hope, Greatest, Wrong

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Bad, Matter

I don't think in terms of God.
William Shatner

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown

Love, Women, Men

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer

Language, Church, Generation

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
Jim Davis

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry

Trying, Again, Far

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Everything, Same, Matter

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
Wayne Gretzky

Everything, Hockey, Worked

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

Life, Marriage, Woman

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz

Life, Happy, Someone

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.
Tom Vilsack

Focus, Situation, Healthy

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Jon Meacham

Education, Great, Power

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
Salma Hayek

Time, Woman, American

I don't really think in career terms.
Jeff Bridges

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
Hugh Jackman

True, Point, Rules

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

Logic, Century, Hopes

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
Marco Rubio

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.
Nikki Sixx

Done, Motley, Crue

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Rich

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe

Bad, Light, Reason

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