Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

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.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

My boys don't play as much as they used to, but when we do go out and play, it gets competitive, that's for sure - there's no question about it.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'