Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short
term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long
term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
View quotes by Carl SaganCommunists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-
term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-
term objects of freedom movements.
View quotes by Nelson MandelaTerm, holidays,
term, holidays, til we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
View quotes by C S LewisThere are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long
term memory, decreased short
term memory, and I forget the third.
View quotes by Timothy LearyThe real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-
term rip-off and a short-
term scam.
View quotes by Tony Snow'It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous
term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.'
View quotes by Bob Geldof'some of the lines that I say on the show well I will say it or I think I know how to say it, then someone like James or someone else will come up to me and say you dont know what that means do you? For example the
term walking your dog... not got a clue even my Dad knows I don't get it which is embarrassing' - Katie talking about how there are times when she doesn't know what her character's talking about!
View quotes by Katie HolmesSome people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the
term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process. (The Use of Lateral Thinking 1967)
View quotes by Edward De BonoIf anyone... seriously believes that a further exponential rise in the prison population for short-
term prisoners and first-time offenders is the way to ensure our safety then they are sorely deluded.
View quotes by David BlunkettThose who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-
term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry BlofeldYou shouldn't have a long-
term strategy anymore, because you won't be able to move fast enough.
View quotes by Orit GadishI've had flings with women before, though my long-
term relationships have always been with men. I was pleasantly surprised when I fell for Alice!
View quotes by Rachel WilliamsNarcissist: psychoanalytic
term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
View quotes by Thomas SzaszExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder
term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonDecadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a
term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
View quotes by Ernest HemingwayUnhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a
term might just as well be thirteen years.
View quotes by Graham GreeneFor me there is a mission for this country moving forward - there are big long-
term decisions we've got to take as a nation.
View quotes by Gordon BrownThey might have to redefine the
term rocket science.
View quotes by Clive EvertonThe
term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
View quotes by Leonard CohenI think he is a long-
term name. He is a very big talent. [Stewart Downing]
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