Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - its more personal, and your friends generate it.

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.