For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.
Early in my term I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not now doing.
There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.
Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite. . . efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and moremorefaster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.
When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art. . . these worlds are not far apart from each other. For instance, pieces of art that hang on a wall can be seen in museums or can be used in a variety of commercial ways. That art is everywhere, so the message is that it's a part of everyday life.
Every advertisement is part of the long term investment in the personality of the brand.
NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot. '
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance. " Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.
I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.