Terminological Quotes & Sayings

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain. — Aristotle.

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming. — Alex Hirsch

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. — Donald Davidson

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. — Alexander Haig

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing. — Robert Heilbroner

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. — Pope Francis

And as the sea wind blew on that high and lonely place, there began to slip away from the voter's mind the meaningless phrases that had crowded it long - thumping majority - victory in the fight - terminological inexactitudes - and the smell of paraffin lamps dangling in classrooms, and quotations taken from ancient speeches because the words were long. — Lord Dunsany

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? — Alexander McCall Smith

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men — Edgar Lee Masters

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — Winston Churchill

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? — Winston Churchill

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes. — Winston S. Churchill

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition. — Mark Twain

Dickens defends what he has written in terms of its truth. This is not the last time that the 'true' and the 'real' were to be opposed unfruitfully. The same terminological mismatch was to feature throughout the rest of the century in debate about the nature of literary realism and the moral function of realist art. — Charles Dickens

Such terminological difficulties remind us that history, despite its popular identification with the past, is at all times most relevant to the present. — Rian Thum

Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think. — Beyonce Knowles