Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

So I can say I used to have a waist.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian) Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.