#terms

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era. ↗

— David Amram

#am #creativity #enduring #energy #era

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#anything #clean #come #different #i

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far. ↗

— Shiri Appleby

#far #gave #growing #growing up #had

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#buddhists #describe #god #much #nirvana

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#desires #enjoyment #every #every man #evidently

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

#anarchist #art #i #i am #impressionist

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#anxiety #even #felt #had #i