Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high—a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities—to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.

At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.