Used Quotes
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.
I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.
When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.
A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.
You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.
Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.
It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.
My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember...but I forgot!
I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.
Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.