Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.