Top 100 Use To Quotes
#2. In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
Guillermo Del Toro
#3. An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth ... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis
#4. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
Elton Gallegly
#7. I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.
Jimi Hendrix
#8. A ninnyhammer," Jane said, "sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those.
Courtney Milan
#9. Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
Miyamoto Musashi
#10. Of all the girls I ever knew
some loved and some denied me
And all the words I ever said
have been no use to hide me
And all the songs I ever sung
each one of them untied me
And all the girls I ever loved
have left themselves inside me.
Al Stewart
#11. The parts of humanity that use to be civil are dead and gone. The only thing left is a technological, emotionless, colorless, dead version of reality we live in every day.
James Wheeler
#12. If there's one piece of knowledge that is of less use to a fellow than knowing when he's beat, it's knowing when he's done just enough work to keep from being fired.
George Horace Lorimer
#13. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.
Henri Poincare
#17. There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people's faces. And for a long time I didn't get it. I'd just get mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away. "What the heck are you looking at?" I'd say to people - even grown-ups.
R.J. Palacio
#18. Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.
Emil M. Cioran
#19. Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about something gives him courage to endure it; that he has written about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace.
Kerima Polotan
#20. Yes, that's the laptop I use to write all the Goosebumps books. I know it looks strange. That's because someone's lap is still attached. Don't touch it. I think it's contagious.
R.L. Stine
#21. [The enemy] has filled His world full of pleasures ... Everything has to be twisted before it is any use to us. We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side. (Not that that excuses you ... )
C.S. Lewis
#22. Just like the gentle shake we use to wake someone up, we can stimulate our belongings by physically moving them, exposing them to fresh air and making them "conscious.
Marie Kondo
#23. Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.
Mao Zedong
#24. We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.
Sharon Salzberg
#25. It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.
Leni Zumas
#26. It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke
#27. The idea of most use to tyrants is that of God,
Stendhal
#28. I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
Fats Domino
#29. Ally.' He said slowly, tasting it. Friend, lover, target, hunter, victor, mutt, fiancee, enemy. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out.
Suzanne Collins
#30. Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
Jim Trelease
#31. I wish there were a secret signal you could use to communicate: HELLO. I AM OFFICIALLY COOL WITH SILENCE. Not
Becky Albertalli
#32. Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.
J.S. Morin
#36. Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have a voice they can use to help the animal cause, and it is up to all of us to use it to make a positive difference!
Jane Goodall
#37. What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
Joe Dante
#38. There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.
Sax Rohmer
#39. I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging ... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#40. Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience - a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.
Robert A. Caro
#41. Sometimes, you have to do what's best for you, otherwise you're no use to anyone. Nothing good would have come from dragging it out any longer.
Zayn Malik
#42. At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
Eric Christian Olsen
#43. I didn't think too much of killing individual people. I use to think of killing the human race sometimes.
Charles Starkweather
#44. Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.
Peter Lawrence
#45. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#46. Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel better thus impacting our decisions and actions.
Maddy Malhotra
#47. How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?
Jenny Oliver
#48. When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
Joel Osteen
#49. When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
Jennifer Stone
#50. The Bible indicates that God will not permit anything to happen that he can't use to bring ultimate good to his people and to glorify himself. That's his promise. Therefore, even the most terrible evil his children endure would not be pointless.
Randy Alcorn
#51. Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.
Lauren Stamile
#52. Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?
Mark Twain
#53. Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
Phyllis Bottome
#54. Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
Tippi Hedren
#55. The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
Carlos Castaneda
#56. I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
Damien Chazelle
#58. Oh happy he who still can hope in our day
to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!
What we don't know is really what we need,
and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#60. There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.
Malak El Halabi
#61. Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.
Germany Kent
#62. Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
John Otto
#63. In my book (and this is my book!) magical thinking is the alchemy that you can use to visualize and project yourself into the professional and personal life that you want.
Sophia Amoruso
#64. What use to the sane, after all, are the words of the mad?
Alexis Hall
#65. When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
Oswald Chambers
#66. The mind requires regular use to remain strong.
Napoleon Hill
#67. My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today Have but one purpose; to be given Christ To use to bless the world with miracles. - W, LESSON 353
Alan Cohen
#68. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.
Liza Palmer
#69. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#70. She use to knock me out until her face broke out.
Frank Zappa
#71. There's nothing life can throw at us that God can't use to draw us nearer to him.
Kyle Idleman
#72. I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives.
Melissa Rosenberg
#73. The fight-or-flight is often triggered in situations where it is of little or no use to us.
Russ Harris
#74. Most of us are unaware of the words we use on a regular basis. We weren't taught that the words we regularly use to describe our experiences and conditions in life impact and influence our emotional states.
Maddy Malhotra
#75. I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.
Nicki Minaj
#76. The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
Philip Larkin
#77. Everyone does', 'They say', 'tradition', 'studies show', these are not reasons to do or not to do anything, but rather excuses people use to avoid the work of thinking about the question.
Jennie Moench
#78. There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
Trey Gowdy
#80. Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford
#81. Literacy rots the brain, I'm afraid. And a rotten mind is of no use to the New Order. Sadly, there must be consequences.
James Patterson
#82. The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
Marshall Field
#83. Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
Albert Schweitzer
#84. Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
Felix Salmon
#85. My first crush use to think I hate her cuz never find time to chat with her , is only Hi and hellow that all , but not knowing that deep down in my soul and heart she is the first and last I want , but hey is fine now , she end up with some fox who loves her ,
Sikhwetha Maanda
#86. I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, I might be wrong.
Louise Penny
#87. Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, ... 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.
Noam Chomsky
#88. Just because you hold a sword, does not mean it is the only weapon you can use to win the battle.
Marc Cameron
#89. I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.
Karen Marie Moning
#90. Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard - the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.
Sue Miller
#92. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
#93. We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.
Joan Crawford
#95. My basic point being that stories are at the heart of what explorers and novelists say about strange regions of the world; they also become the method colonized people use to assert their own identity and the existence of their own history.
Edward W. Said
#97. Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us.
Skye Callahan
#98. It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai Gogol
#99. Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.
Plato
#100. But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.
Daniel Quinn
