Best 5697 quotes in «use quotes» category

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign`s own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.

Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Who's the president on the $100 bill? I don't know. I don't need to know because I don't use cash. I only use travelers checks.

Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.

Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?

Why didn’t you sleep with the headrest?” I shrugged. “It was uncomfortable.” I looked at Sadie for support. “You didn’t use it, did you?” Sadie rolled her eyes. “Well, of course I did. It was obviously there for a reason.

Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.