Quotes of: Termed Keyword

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 ...

Jordin Sparks

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of...

Josh Cooke

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

Ashwin Sanghi

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beaut...

Hugh Hefner

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a...

Jane Leavy

I don’t like the term “Average Joe.” I prefer “Dolly,” because not only is the Everyman a sheep, but he’s also a clone. They all think alike and act alike.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

We’re all trying to come to terms with our mortality. Well, except for me, because I plan to live forever through the miracle of cloning.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.

Active Hope

Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.

Have it Your Way: A Practical Guide to Living Life on Your Terms

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

How the Mind Works

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

I've been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.

Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

The Principles of Biology, Vol 1