Don't Use My Past Against Me Quotes

#1. Bible, and so the delivery of one of these prizes was a rare and noteworthy circumstance;

Mark Twain

#2. This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do.

Morgan Matson

#3. First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me

Veronica Roth

#4. Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

Tip O'Neill

#6. I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy.

Joshua Morrow

#7. In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]

Jim C. Hines

#9. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#10. I trust you. And please, please don't use that against me.

Katie McGarry

#11. A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don't know how to use it.

Kerstin Gier

#12. I felt him sigh against me. "It was. But it didn't mean anything. Please don't use her to keep me at a distance" ...

R.K. Lilley

#13. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.

Barack Obama

#15. The truth is I don't want him watching me while I eat. I don't want him to see my hunger. If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop from wanting anything. He

Margaret Atwood

#16. When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#17. If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Peace begins with you and your unconditional forgiveness.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

Orson Scott Card

#20. When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

Aaron Zigman

#21. Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

Sun Tzu

#22. Don't care too much, Porsche. Every person you meet will use it against you.

Sister Souljah

#23. I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

George Takei

#24. In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that.

Kekla Magoon

#25. Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Pema Chodron

#26. Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

Chris Matakas

#27. The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it ... " Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues

Ronald D. Moore

#28. You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

Gary L. Blackwood

#29. I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

Sue Hubbell

#30. When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler.
What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: Don't use me as your model. I'm the last person you should look up to.

Jodi Picoult

#31. How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!
The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze
His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;
Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees;
And birds of morning trim their bustling wings,
And listen fondly
while the Blackbird sings.

Frederick Tennyson

#32. I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense,

Peter B. Lewis

#33. You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity.

Louis L'Amour

#34. Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#35. There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't they look tempting? I always think that food tastes better outdoors."
With that remark," remarked Kismine, "Jasmine enters the Middle class.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#36. God, Four!" I snap. "You don't want to have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?"
"First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me," he says, pointing at me.

Veronica Roth

#37. I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

Michel Gondry

#38. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.

Tina J. Richardson

#39. We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

Richard Dawkins

#40. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.

James Carlos Blake