Top 100 Quotes About Uses
#1. The novelist destroys the house of his life and uses its stones to build the house of his novel.
Milan Kundera
#2. Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking ... ,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
Adam Ferrara
#3. The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.
Sean MacBride
#4. If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?
Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
Edith Wharton
#5. I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings ... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes ... they are idea men.
Howe Gelb
#6. You use your tits the way a ninja assassin uses nunchuks.
Shannon McKenna
#7. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
Thomas Sowell
#8. Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
#9. A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
John McAfee
#10. What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.
Piet Mondrian
#11. Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.
Paul Krugman
#12. Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.
Timothy Noah
#13. It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.
Susan Sullivan
#14. Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.
Matt Mullenweg
#15. Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
Robert Altman
#16. There's no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it's especially great when she uses her supermodel looks and charitable spirit to support the organization she founded, Every Mother Counts.
Amanda Hearst
#17. Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux
#18. What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#19. Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.
Mike Brown
#20. Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.
Patricia Wolfe
#21. Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief. Then
Glennon Doyle Melton
#22. These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
Samuel Johnson
#23. On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
#25. The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.
Robert Musil
#27. Lehman uses many conveyances - including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes - to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.
Ken Tucker
#28. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
Charles Evans Hughes
#29. Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion
#30. If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?
Jacques Maritain
#31. Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.
Silver RavenWolf
#32. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
Nina LaCour
#33. Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#34. My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray.
Christine Amsden
#35. Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
Nicole Ari Parker
#36. The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
P.T. Barnum
#37. As a blacksmith uses heat to temper steel, so should a trial by fire strengthen one's mettle.
Jeffrey Fry
#38. Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.
Ann Coulter
#39. Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
Marc Andreessen
#40. I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Alfred E. Perlman
#41. Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
Oswald Chambers
#42. A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.
Charles Murray
#43. Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
Sylvester Stallone
#44. When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
Arthur W. Pink
#45. The marketing mix consists of the types and amounts of controllable marketing-decision variables that a company uses over a particular time period. Commonly referred to as the "four Ps," these variables are:
John G. Wensveen
#46. Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.
Zelda Popkin
#48. [Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, and he doesn't get paralyzed by the process or by new ideas. He embraces them and uses them.
Janusz Kaminski
#49. It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.
Joseph LeConte
#50. Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things.
Hilaire Belloc
#51. If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.
Rick Warren
#52. My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
Bar Refaeli
#53. Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris Grumbach
#54. Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them
Bo Ryan
#55. Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.
Criss Jami
#56. I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley
#57. A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.
Julian Whitaker
#59. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
Steven Franssen
#60. Nobody uses email anymore. I'm this old fogie with my email. I don't know what I'm supposed to communicate with now - SnapChat?
Paul Bloom
#61. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.
Adrian Rogers
#63. When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
P.G. Wodehouse
#64. I don't care about religion or who makes it. I only care about god's mind and how he uses it.
Islam Atef Aly
#65. Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
David Tudor
#66. God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.
John Bevere
#67. I don't really begrudge anyone who uses substances, I just feel that yoga is a more sustainable way to find peace because it's from the inside out.
MC Yogi
#68. God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
Charles R. Swindoll
#69. Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!
ABD- RU-SHIN
#70. Listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"!
J.K. Rowling
#71. Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.
Amie Kaufman
#73. There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
William H. Hunt
#74. We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#75. Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.
George Polya
#76. The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
Ben Shapiro
#78. Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.
Rob Pike
#79. One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#80. The inner Judge uses what is in our Book of Law to judge everything we do and don't do, everything we think and don't think, and everything we feel and don't feel. Everything lives under the tyranny of this Judge.
Miguel Ruiz
#81. This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he's none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind's right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka's mystery even to the Pooka.
Peter S. Beagle
#82. No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
T. S. Eliot
#83. I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
Joanna Lumley
#84. Language comes from what we've seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what's not.
Alena Graedon
#85. Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.
Rod Coronado
#86. You chopped onions with a knife, spread butter with a knife. Yes, it could cause damage, but there were lots of other uses. There was only one use for a gun. Two
Anoushka Beazley
#87. No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey
#88. hard is often the vehicle Jesus uses to meet us, point us to that peace, and teach us grace.
Kara Tippetts
#89. Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.
Stewart Liff
#90. Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
Andre Agassi
#91. Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.
Robert Wright
#92. Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
Ludwig Von Mises
#93. So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help.
DeVon Franklin
#94. God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.
James Robison
#95. Brain tissue requires over 22 times as much energy as an equivalent amount of muscle tissue. In a modern human, the brain uses around 16 percent of the body's energy budget despite making up just 2 percent of the body's overall mass.
Christopher Seddon
#96. A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
Samuel Johnson
#97. It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,
Ben Shapiro
#98. I squirmed. "What kind of angel uses words like quick fuck?"
He cocked an eyebrow. "Fallen ones.
Kristina Douglas
#99. What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it
only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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