Top 100 Quotes About Being Used
#1. I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
Nick Nolte
#2. If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used
Dean Koontz
#3. The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.
David Lloyd
#4. Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
John Berger
#5. Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel.
Saurabh Sharma
#6. gimmicks. A closer look at the online school movement illustrates how tax dollars and philanthropic donations are being used to fuel huge windfalls in the private sector.
Linsey McGoey
#7. Football is being used as a language in that project ... The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Roger Moore
#8. You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.
Richard Dawkins
#9. The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
John Piper
#10. There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.
Ron Paul
#11. I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
Ruth St. Denis
#12. There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood.
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
#13. People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms are only defined for a single conversation. Those involved in the conversation need to know how the terms are being used.
Pattiann Rogers
#14. Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.
Imran Khan
#15. We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.
John Catsimatidis
#16. It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
Eddie Redmayne
#17. Your skills are adequate, though you would be better served by keeping your mouth closed unless it's being used to please or swallow.
Judith James
#18. Much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
Frances Moore Lappe
#19. We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").
J.P. Moreland
#20. The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh
#21. Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.
Junichiro Koizumi
#22. We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
Brian Eno
#23. As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
Marc Maron
#24. Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.
Ian Bremmer
#25. Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
Thomas Kinkade
#26. All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.
Ira Berkow
#27. From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#28. God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.
John Bertram Phillips
#29. I need you, not it. And I'm done being used. If you're going to take from me, you're going to start giving back, and I'll start with your heart.
Delilah S. Dawson
#30. The receding waves of foreign peon labor are leaving California agriculture to the mercies of our own people. The old methods of intimidation and starvation perfected against the foreign peons are being used against the new white migrant workers. But they will not be successful.
John Steinbeck
#31. Used books, as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as if a book isn't the one thing, the one product, that is forever new. There's no such thing as a used book. Or there's no such thing as a book if it's not being used.
Deborah Meyler
#32. To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.
Karl Evang
#33. But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
Kate Adie
#34. The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It's good when it's being used for leftist causes. It's bad when it's being used for any other purpose.
Ben Shapiro
#35. I mean, Charlie and I have never had issues pleasuring each other before, but damn, Charlie getting pregnant equals crazy sex. Wild sex. Sex that makes me feel like I'm being used. Best. Feeling.Ever.
Layne Harper
#36. If you cast me out of the Dagger Society, then I will form my own. I am tired of losing. I am tired of being used, hurt and tossed aside.
It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
My turn.
Marie Lu
#37. If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
Jaron Lanier
#38. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
John Green
#39. The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.
Michael Tellinger
#40. If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.
Brunello Cucinelli
#41. I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
Thomas Heatherwick
#42. You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.
Rick Ungar
#43. If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.
Andy Warhol
#44. Increasingly being used for routine duties such as conducting liquor inspections and serving warrants.
Anonymous
#46. In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.
David Levithan
#47. If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.
James E. Rogers
#48. While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.
Chris Matthews
#49. I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used.
Distraction
That much I gathered. What am I supposed to be distracting you from? There's a chance that if I knew, I could do my job more effectively.
Kody Keplinger
#50. Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Roger Wicker
#51. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
Charlie Parker
#52. When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.
Bryant McGill
#53. We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
Leontyne Price
#54. Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller
#55. The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.
Harrison Schmitt
#56. I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
Marie Lu
#57. The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.
Michel Martelly
#58. This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables.
David Mitchell
#59. There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate.
Thomm Quackenbush
#60. A portable CD player played some kind of new age stuff that sounded like aborigine instruments being used to help a woman imitate Enya. At any rate, there was definitely a bull-roarer and a didgeridoo in there somewhere.
Elliott James
#61. The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.
Rush Limbaugh
#62. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.
Italo Calvino
#63. The sting and pain of my Mark was nothing compared to the pain I'm feeling now. It's a scraping deep down, a dull blade being used to dig out my heart.
RaeLynn Fry
#64. Gregory writes of Armageddon as if the Devil is getting off on using him literally to write that iniquitous beast into existence, into the flesh. I believe both Gregory and Jamie Stillingsworth are being used as vessels to bring about the end of days.
A.K. Kuykendall
#65. Offerings for charity that Catholics from throughout the world sent to the Vatican were being used to plug up deficits created by a handful of Church officials who maneuvered the bureaucratic levers of the Holy See.
Gianluigi Nuzzi
#66. Make sure your tithe are being used for something that is visible
Sunday Adelaja
#67. I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
Peter Greenaway
#68. But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.
Jim Otto
#69. I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
Doug Aitken
#70. The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
#71. Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.
Onyi Anyado
#72. And I always have this feeling,
which may not be true at all,
that I am being used as a messenger.
I think I'm receiving,
and so,
I think I'm retransmitting!
Jose N. Harris
#73. Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.
Michael R. Fletcher
#74. The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.
Pat Tillman
#75. The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
Ben Wheatley
#76. are still being used and strengthened for muscle-building instructions.
M.P. Neary
#77. What frightened Paran most, these days, was that he had grown used to being used. He'd been someone else so many times that he saw a thousand faces, heard a thousand voices, all at war with his own.
Steven Erikson
#78. TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
John Poindexter
#79. What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.
Todd Solondz
#80. Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.
Christopher Bram
#82. Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
Andrew Forrest
#85. We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas Clarkson
#86. If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.
Thomas Mapfumo
#87. Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
Ed Catmull
#88. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.
Alan W. Watts
#89. The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.
Pat Swindall
#90. What teachings of Scripture do you still mainly follow out of dutiful habit, not with an eye toward honoring God or being used as a blessing to others? What has your legalistic adherence gained for you, and what has it cost you?
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#91. I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.
Cee Lo Green
#92. The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
Rick Boucher
#93. Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Peter Hammill
#94. I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.
Zach Braff
#95. Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.
Helen Garner
#96. One sees differently with color photography than black-and-white ... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
Ansel Adams
#97. As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.
Rick Smolan
#98. You will surely love the world if you enjoy
being used by people.
Vj Nadar
#99. In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
David Icke
#100. Men fear being used; women fear being used up.
Jo Coudert
