Used Quotes

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

This aint the life that I'm used to, reintroduced to people I've been introduced to.

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.