In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
Aldrich Ames

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
Aldrich Ames

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.
Jim Dine

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul Vaneigem

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
F. Murray Abraham

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
F. Murray Abraham

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
Namie Amuro

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
Herb Ritts

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
Ed Rendell

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
Alberto Giacometti

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.
James Van Fleet

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
Robin Wright Penn

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
Cathy Freeman

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
Walter Kaufmann

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.
Christie Hefner

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
Bridget Riley