To Be Of Use Quotes
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.
Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.
Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.
I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.
Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'
We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.
We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.