Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Don LaFontaine was very intelligent. He used to say to me, "Always save your money, son". And I said, "Can I start doing voiceovers?" And he said, "You can, Pablo. You can. Don't worry, we'll talk about that later.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

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.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

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

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.