Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

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

For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

For Michael [Bay] and I [ Transformers: The Last Knight ] is our third movie so we're quite familiar with each other and know where to push each other and bring the best out of each other. But I'm definitely not as young as I used to be, that's the biggest difference.

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.

"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a cliché because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

Get used to the bear behind you.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.

Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Have confidence in yourself - don't let yourself be used.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.