645 Term Quotes for You to Enjoy

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress. John George Nicolay

Men First Few Congress Enough Distinction Term First Term Very Few Men Gain Fortunate

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. John Griffin Carlisle

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I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing. John Holdren

Changing One Of The Things Temperature About Something Only Fact Misleading Mainly Term Implies Like Global Global Warming Because Gradual In Fact Uniform Warming Planet Across Things

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own. John Lahr

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I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army. John Paul Jones

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We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. John R. Allen

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In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble. John Ralston Saul

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For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf. Johnny Miller

Me Term Another Just Golf Choking

The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. Jon Ronson

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I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect. Jon Taffer

Success You Respect Better Reputation Think Relative Exceptional Term Norm Than Being Achieving Success Is Capturing Income Elephant

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. Joni Mitchell

Art Age College Term Conceived Art College End Near

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice. Jordin Sparks

Attitude Time You People Negative Somebody Stage Think Type Definitely Diva Voice Idea Term Demands Singer Course Because Female Always Got Been Male Aura Gets Whether Who Things Presence

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term. Joseph Brodsky

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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. Joseph Butler

Heart Affection Sense Every Else Object Objects Somewhat Self Term Particular Equally Because Self-Love Interested Disinterested Them Expressed Appetite

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling. Joshua Foer

Best Memories Creative People Genius Think Innovators Ways Telling Entirely Term New Middle Middle Ages Ages Who Reserve Reserved

My ascension as interim president is based on Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution, according to which, if at the outset of a new term there is no elected head of state, power is vested in the president of the National Assembly until free and transparent elections take place. Juan Guaido

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If I design another line, I will definitely design pieces that suit both pregnant and non-pregnant women. Being pregnant is one of the most amazing things, but it is a big change in a woman's life and body, and I think it is important she feels amazing all along her term. And being able to wear beautiful lingerie will definitely help. Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly. Julian Ovenden

Listening Easy Term Often Used Incorrectly

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it. Junot Diaz

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. Jurgen Habermas

In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader. Justin Cartwright

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