Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

"And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?” “That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. “You're incredible.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare.

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

... any dodge, or trick, or conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use so that it belongs to his art and is not false to nature. If the dodges, tricks, etc., lead the photographer astray, so much the worse for him; if they do not assist him to represent nature, he is not fit to use them. It is not the fault of the dodges, it is the fault of the bungler.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Any external support, if you want to call it support, let's use this world, is... how to say... it's going to be additional, but it's not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. It's also cool that CFY will also make sure that they learn how to use them.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

Anything that I actually do drink myself or I do actually use myself, I'm going to be into promoting it.

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.