And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, 'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!'

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
Bunthorne's song, Patience, act1.

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

-Grant, Ulysses S(impson)
  Message to Simon Bolivar Buckner, besieged at Fort Donelson,16 Feb. Quoted in P C Headley TheLife and Campaigns of General U. S. Grant (1869), ch.6.

As I know more of mankind I expect less ofthem, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Sep. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Terms of Endearment.

-McMurtry, LarryJeff
   Title of novel, subsequently filmed.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

-Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
  De Stijl, vol.6.

No, this vile world and I have long been jangling, And cannot part on better terms than now, When only men like thee are fit to live in't.

-Otway,Thomas
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 4, sc.2.

In the springtime of America's cultural life, its itinerant folk artiststook totheroad to record the life and times of a people.Perhaps never again will we have an artistic record created in such direct and unassuming terms.

-Rockefeller,Winthrop
  On an exhibition of American folk art at the US Embassy, London. In news summaries, 31 Jan.

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Chaplain to Peter Cauchon. Saint Joan, sc.4.