Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Reality is not what it used to be.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

She lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: “He doesn’t make enough time for me. He isn’t as romantic as he used to be.Copyright © by Sherry Argov

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.