Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

Activity is intelligence. We follow our information systems and we use our energy to get it done. And that's caused by a byproduct called matter. That's why I call it "energetic matter." And it's chemical matter. We are chemistry.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on. I know what you will say next, and I know what you will do next.' The distinguished scientist promptly sat down on the floor, turned two back somersaults, and returned to his seat. 'There,' he said with a smile. 'That's to prove that you're not always right.'

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

A fortress is of no use to cowards.

After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy.

After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

A good wit will make use of anything.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.