| "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot |
| "Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities." »Terry Josephson |
| "The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox." »Kedar Joshi |
| "contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." »Ayn Rand |
| "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." »Douglas Adams |
| "One must love a cat on its own terms." »Peter Gray |
| "in simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." »John Erksine |
| "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." »Dan Quayle |
| "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God." »Saint Teresa of Avila |
| "If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes." »Harrison Ford |
| "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." »Alfred A. Knopf |
| "Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms." »Gloria Steinem |
| "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker |
| "Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." »Gail |
| "You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul." »Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |
| "I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio |
| "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." »Samuel Butler |
| "Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay." »Millard Fuller |
| "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love" »Albert Einstein |
| "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly." »Samuel Johnson |
| "If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money." »John Updike |
| "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." »William Wordsworth |
| "All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone." »Richard von Weizscker |
| "I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him" »Ronald Reagan |
| "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| "The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford |
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