(2765 quotes found)
“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.”
Henry Moore
“"A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
Dan Quayle
“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by”
Peter Kropotkin
“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”
William Shakespeare
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
John Fowles
“There are all kinds of ways to forestall graduation. Taking a term off, getting suspended, not completing courses, all of these are valid.”
Zonker Harris
“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
“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”
Carl Sagan
“In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions.”
Will Wright