Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

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.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

So I can say I used to have a waist.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.