To Be Of Use Quotes

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Use your art to fight.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

So keep your chin up, boy, forget the pain. I know you'll make it, if you try again. There's no use in quitting, when the world is waiting for you.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

Technology evangelism has always been my passion since I learned how to use computers.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

I use the hook to carry coffee.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.