Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

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Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate. ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why...Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.