Quotes About Used And Abused

#1. I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Stanley Kubrick

#2. Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

Erik Naggum

#3. Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.

Stephen Richards

#4. The Nazi leaders ... .treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored

Sebastian Haffner

#5. Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

Barry Ritholtz

#6. By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism. If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple.

Pope Francis

#7. I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Esme Bianco

#8. After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

Wright Morris

#9. And while we're talking about being used and abused, you should know that there are some things you tell and some things you handle by yourself, the best you can.

Laura Wiess

#10. Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

Hideo Kojima

#11. Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh ... (He reflects.) We wouldn't have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?

Samuel Beckett

#12. Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.

Andrew Weil

#13. I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

Margaret Cho

#14. I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

Motsoko Pheko

#15. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

Robert Grudin

#16. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

#18. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.

Craig Stone

#19. In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.

Edward Bernays

#20. Male and female friends are always only just-the-tip away from being more.

Rachel Robinson

#21. Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Havelock Ellis

#22. Oh, forget it. I'm over love. It's nothing but a weapon. Properly used, it protects us. Properly abused, it dissects us.

Anthony Paull

#23. The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Dee Hock

#24. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.

Paul Isaacs

#25. Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.

Desmond Seward

#26. She's half-insane, looking for an out; she's hard, she's scared, she's been fooled, taken, abused, used, over-used ...
but, under all that, to me she's the flower, I see her as she was before she was ruined by the lies: theirs and hers.

Charles Bukowski

#27. Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi.

George R R Martin

#28. But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

John Calvin

#29. And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

Bruce Nauman

#30. World's full of things to lose yourself in. Don't mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards.

Peter V. Brett

#31. I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

Graham Kennedy

#32. It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

Keith Olbermann

#33. Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

B.R. Ambedkar

#35. Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#36. If it be true that good wine needs no bush,
'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue;
yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.

William Shakespeare

#37. She felt abused, used, cherished, and pleasured.
She despised him. She loved him. She mistrusted him. She had complete faith in him. Ah!

Connie Brockway