#term

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#frustrate #going #good #make #managing

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. ↗

— Lee Child

#down #food #generic #i #i love

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#china #convinced #i #i am #long

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#been #child #company #experience #i

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#geographical #india #more #nation #term

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things. ↗

— Helen Clark

#being prepared #express #had #having #i

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#culture #europe #european #european union #geography

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bottom line #capacity #deliver #deny #destruction