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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. -- Bertolt Brecht
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! -- Emily Dickinson
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. -- Samuel Hahnemann
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. -- Ezra Stiles
I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting. -- Johnny Vegas
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production. -- Ronald Coase
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. -- Noam Chomsky
The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans. -- Theodor Mommsen
My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far. -- Victoria Moran
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. -- Frederick Soddy
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama. -- Martin Freeman
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. -- Nassau William Senior
What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.' -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. -- Martin Filler
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. -- Bruce Jackson
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck. -- Lindsay Fox
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair. -- Angelina Grimke
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material. -- Victor Hugo
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing. -- Hugo Ball
Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood. -- Zicheng Hong
Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.' -- James Planche
The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone. -- Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. -- Walter Scott
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. -- Samuel Johnson
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. -- Dale Spender
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical. -- Bryant McGill
Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial. -- Henry Giroux
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. -- D. V. Ager
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art. -- David Foster Wallace
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. -- Alvin Toffler
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. -- Oscar Wilde
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art." -- David Foster Wallace
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. -- Pat Metheny
FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves. -- Anuj
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. -- Maimonides
There is a characteristic INTJ expression which has become popularly termed "the death glare." This facial expression is actually not a glare, but the INTJ's neutral face. -- Anna Moss
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51. -- William Hazlitt
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. -- Isaac Asimov
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment. -- Clifford Whittingham Beers
Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive. -- Gregor Mendel
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness. -- Emile Durkheim

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