To Be Of Use Quotes

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.