Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

European festivals area lot bigger than American ones, but I like the travelling festivals, it's the same production every day and the bands get used to the stage set up and by the third or fourth show of the tour they're putting on a better show than if they just played one day.

Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

[Facism] that incredibly loaded word we do not associate with the real American politics is being used by other conservatives, by other Republicans to talk about Donald Trump.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

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

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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, 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 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 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

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.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

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