Used Quotes

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.

Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies.

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Do the things you used to do, and you'll feel the feelings you used to feel.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.