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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. -- Joni Mitchell
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter? -- J. K. Rowling
At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school. -- Joyce Banda
Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term. -- Stephanie Cutter
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' -- Robert Carlyle
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. -- William Godwin
In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. -- Elliott Abrams
A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential. -- Jonah Peretti
Unhappiness 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. -- Graham Greene
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. -- James L. Buckley
Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term. -- Patton Oswalt
I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues. -- Dennis Kucinich
When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen. -- Pete Hegseth
I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. -- Geoffrey Rush
I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start. -- Francois Hollande
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. -- Sally Quinn
At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office. -- Robert Dallek
I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term. -- Leila Janah
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. -- Leonard Cohen
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that. -- Kevin Rahm
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems. -- Richard Rogers
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. -- Barack Obama
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. -- Newt Gingrich
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The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust. -- Alan Johnson
Unhappiness 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. -- Graham Greene
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home. -- Winston Churchill

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