Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.

Reality is not what it used to be.

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

She lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: “He doesn’t make enough time for me. He isn’t as romantic as he used to be.Copyright © by Sherry Argov

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

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

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.

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.

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

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.