Top 1200 Second Term Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Everywhere I go in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I am touched by the fierce desire for education, and the outpouring of hospitality and generosity. The most important ingredient is the relationships. The process takes "Three Cups of Tea". First you are a stranger, second a friend, and the third, you become family, but the process takes several years. Here in America, we have 8 second sound bytes, 2 minute football drills, and thirty minute power lunches.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

I intend to serve a full term as Taoiseach.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

Short term memory is not good.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

Free will is an empty term.

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and the term "young feminist," and the first thing that came up was a page from the National Organization for Women that was about 10 or 15 years old. And it just struck me as so odd that there was all of this young feminist activism going on, but that it wasn't necessarily being represented online, that the first things in a Google search to come up were really, really old. I think to a certain degree we really filled a gap, and that's why we got such a large readership.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.

America needs a long-term vision.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Long-term success depends upon trust.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

We need term limits desperately in this country.

I like the concept that if you’re with someone, it’s for the long term.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.

What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency.

I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

Rekindled love is generally short-term.

I'm willing to lose profits in the short term.

Coining a term is not the same as creating a field!

I never had a long-term plan.

The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.