Quotes of: Term-limits Keyword

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both ...

Michael Leunig

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Kailash Kher

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Sydney Pollack

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

1Q84

Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.

The Atrocity Exhibition

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence? ...The term was .

I Hunt Killers

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Indexing

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.

It Is Time and Other Stories

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Making Money

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

Nearly Gone

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

North and South

A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart. If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Magic is difficult to describe, to understand and to come to terms with and many people don’t want to feel different or unusual.

Old Magic in Everyday Life

Life is a continuous feeling wherein something you work for it to be happy in terms of your soul.

OFW: This is My Life and Story

May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into “permanent session” — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!

A Place of Greater Safety

You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

The Taqwacores

Walking along the sidewalk and staring at the street, I couldn’t help but wonder if my date was thinking how provocative the term “manhole cover” is.

This Book is Not FOR SALE