Top 525 Term Quotes

The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
Marilyn Ferguson
I am a feminist. I don’t especially care for the term, but there it is.
Robert Webb
The term ‘demilitarized Palestinian state’ is an oxymoron.
Naftali Bennett
It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term ‘isolationist’ at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
Rand Paul
The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase.
Christophe de Margerie
At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simp

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.
Nick Harkaway
‘Supercentenarian’ is the term used by longevity experts to signify a near numerical impossibility: those who’ve outpaced 99.9999 percent of the population and landed in the 110+ Club.
Michael Paterniti
That term, ‘David and Goliath,’ has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
Alan Dundes
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
Harry Mathews
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Daniel H. Hill
The term ‘steampunk’ itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like ‘Big Bang’ in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
Paul Di Filippo
An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public’s desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.
Ron DeSantis
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term ‘white trash,’ by which they meant poor southerners who didn’t go to Harvard. I’m not sure why that makes them trash.
Bernard Goldberg
The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can’t be part of the same peaceful community of nations.
Wesley Clark
We can’t just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.
Jennifer Palmieri
I’m really happy here at City. It’s a second home to me, so it was an easy decision to stay for the long term. I knew from the beginning when I started here that I wanted to stay for a long time – I can’t see any place better than here.
Edin Dzeko
The idea of creating film scores was terrifying for many years, into my 30s. It struck me as a career of doing 30-page term papers the night before they’re due.
Thomas Newman
K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything – rap records – it’s very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
Diplo
When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.
Jeremy Grantham
When people say to me don’t the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don’t realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.
Paul Daniels
For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.
Edgar Fiedler
It’s a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
Peter Mandelson
When the term ‘machine gun’ enters common parlance, the word ‘machine’ becomes much more sinister.
Scott Westerfeld
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Dennis Prager
In long term investments, you don’t need day to day management.
Shiv Khera
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
Heather Wilson
My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.
Estelle Morris
I’m coming out of a long term marriage and I don’t want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick.
Shaunie O’Neal
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.
Werner Heisenberg
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch
The term ‘Consulting Producer’ is extraordinarily nebulous in TV, and it really means something different depending on the show and the specific circumstances negotiated.
Marc Guggenheim
Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.
Sergio Ramos
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
George Oppen
It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it’ll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.
Brock Pierce
I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
Hunter S. Thompson
Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is l

Big Data is just that – big. But, it’s a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
Rick Smolan
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
Martha Stewart
I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
Berkeley Breathed
What happened in my past happened. What’s the term – don’t cry over spilled milk? That’s the thing people don’t understand. I’m all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.
Saroo Brierley
You have to build businesses for longer term.
Steve Jurvetson
It’s still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
Susan Choi
The term ‘new queer cinema’ and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.
Todd Haynes
I felt the term ‘plus size’ was inaccurate and kept all these beautiful, stunning women with the widest spectrum of body types I’ve ever seen – mind you, curvy agencies start at a size 6 and go up to a size 18 – from being seen and resonated with.
Barbie Ferreira
When ‘The Washington Post’ ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.
Ronald Kessler
‘Evil’ is quite a blanket term. People aren’t the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
David Morrissey
Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.
George Pataki
I did three or four weeks of work on ‘Godzilla;’ it wasn’t a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is ‘script doctoring,’ is what I did on it.
David S. Goyer
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I’m finished with my term as governor, I’m going back to the life that’s waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.
Thomas R. Insel
Whatever long-term advantages are claimed for Brexit it is overwhelmingly clear that in the short to medium term it carries risks to our economy and security.
Dominic Grieve
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
P. J. O’Rourke
I’ve always hated the term ‘alternative’; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I’m talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called ‘alternative’ comedy.
Brian Posehn
I’ve never really understood the term ‘Post-Impressionism’ as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.
Nigel Hamilton
I’ve always been a big guy, whether it’s been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of… I guess the term would be ‘popular.’ I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you’d think a fat kid might have to deal with.
Jim O’Heir
Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term.
John W. Henry
It kind of cracks me up when people say I’m hot because I just think that that’s a term that I don’t have to deal with anymore.
Andie MacDowell