Top 525 Term Quotes

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.
Tim O’Reilly
To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, ‘Deathlok’ is the ‘anti-villain.’ He’s on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn’t want to be there.
J. August Richards
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They’ve had to invent a new term for it: ‘high-end television.’
Robert Carlyle
One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.
Nipsey Hussle
I think it’s very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They’re different issues.
Jack Lew
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I’ve been faithful to that pledge.
Michele Bachmann
‘Me too’ became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.
Tarana Burke
‘Cyberspace’ is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you’re using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I’m not entirely sure it’s such a useful term, but I think that’s what most people mean by it.
Neil Postman
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn’t do it long term.
Adelaide Clemens
The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood’… is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.
James Clapper
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
Charles Edison
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
Brad Holland
Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term ‘Flowers of the Screen’ holds a deep meaning.
Kim Jee-woon
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term ‘true Christian.’ He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.
Phil Jackson
I really hate the term ‘historical novel’ – it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I’m hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent
Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.
Ron DeSantis
The kind of investors we seek are long term because that’s how we make our decisions.
Tim Cook
Success for open source is when the term ‘open source’ becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don’t have much of an excuse not to use it.
Brian Behlendorf
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the unin

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
Allen Tate
India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong – in every sense of the term.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.
Derren Brown
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
Matt Bellamy
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Albert Ellis
As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn’t necessarily have a name. We’ve been called ‘moderates,’ but that term can be misleading.
Lincoln Chafee
I can’t imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
John Cornyn
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Robert Caro
‘Redneck’ has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.
Lewis Grizzard
Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.
Jim Acosta
For years, it’s driven me crazy that women don’t have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt… misogynist streak is too strong a term – but a dismissiveness.
Paul Feig
Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
Simon Mainwaring
I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term.
Sanjay Dutt
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
Clare Short
By the way, in Mrs. Clinton’s returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
Paul Manafort
I think the Obama administration, whether it’s in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president’s effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.
Michael Oren
What public health really is is a trust. That’s why I used the term ‘Betrayal of Trust’ as the title of my book. It’s a trust between the government and the people.
Laurie Garrett
I want to be Eric Cantor’s term limit.
Dave Brat
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
Francis Collins
President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in ’92 ran as an establishment moderate – same candidate, two very different campaigns.
Ted Cruz
When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking – I hate to use this term – they’re looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.
Tilman J. Fertitta
I think it is very sad that ‘sitcom’ has become a pejorative term.
Penelope Keith
After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
Karen Mills
One of the most troubling things about the term ‘fake news’ is that it has become a force field against accusations you don’t like.
Kevin Young
It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
Fred F. Fielding
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev
Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton’s second term will be good for business. My business.
Mark Russell
I don’t like the term mid-life crisis.
Pamela Stephenson
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
Jeff Goodell
Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
Zac Goldsmith
I worked at comedy clubs – if I can use the term ‘work’ – for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
Bill Nye
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions a

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
Robert Dallek
I want to make ‘Broadway’ a word that doesn’t have pejorative connotation. I don’t want ‘musical theater’ to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, ‘Look at the possibilities.’
Thomas Kail
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don’t know what strumpf means. It’s just a term some brothas gave me.
Danny Masterson
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn’t run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We’re going to run on the president’s strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
Ed Gillespie
The term ‘geek’ for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don’t care if people think it’s not cool. You think it’s cool and that’s your thing.
Dominic Monaghan
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Herbert Read