Use When Quotes

#1. It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

Christine Kenneally

#2. Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Tom G. Palmer

#3. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Jean Piaget

#5. When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

Laozi

#6. Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.

Haidji

#7. She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#8. That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

Maelle Gavet

#9. He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.

Lauren Kate

#10. There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress:
Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#11. What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

Dave Barry

#12. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#13. Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me.

Elizabeth Scott

#14. With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,

Mark Lawrence

#15. Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Epictetus

#16. Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

John Amos Comenius

#17. A "sales process" typically refers to a teachable, repeatable set of steps that you or a sales team could use when working with a potential client or customer to move them from a 'lead' to a 'closed' sales or customer.

Todd Parker

#18. Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

Peter DeFazio

#19. Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Douglas Coupland

#20. When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. - Ayurvedic Proverb

Robin Westen

#21. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.

Ric Thompson

#22. Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

Chris Hayes

#23. What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

John Anthony West

#24. Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.

Pearl Zhu

#25. Walking is the speed we were created to use when travelling through life.

Jorgen Johansson

#26. Dedicated ereaders are as sharp as steak knives in doing what they're supposed to do, which is let you read books. The iPad is more like a Swiss Army knife
it can cut the steak and uncork a wine bottle, and there's even a toothpick to use when you're done eating! It's got it all.

Jason Merkoski

#27. The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Auliq Ice

#28. If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk.

Brian Schweitzer

#29. As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Virginia Postrel

#30. There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they're searching for the source of their anxieties.

Carl Watson

#31. Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

Elizabeth Camden

#32. The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Voltaire

#33. Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

John Bolton

#34. They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!

Brad Stine

#35. Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Samuel Johnson

#36. Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

Monica Johnson

#37. Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

Ruth Stafford Peale

#38. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracian

#39. He spoke in that reminiscent, unctuous voice men use when they tell you that sort of thing more to savour an enjoyable past situation, than to impart information which might be of interest.

Anthony Powell

#40. All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our

Christina Lamb

#41. Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.

Thomas Piketty

#42. What's the use - when you will go back? he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words.

Edith Wharton

#43. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

Andrew Taylor Still

#44. They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

George Iles

#45. Use when you're piping the virus into the rats,

Seanan McGuire

#46. I thought about it for another minute, and then said, "Okay."
"Now that's an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay." I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#47. Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Emma Bull

#48. While it does matter what words you use when talking with other people, to an angel it's more about the intentions and energy behind the words.

Doreen Virtue

#49. Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

Donatella Versace

#50. Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

Lil' Kim

#51. 'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Seth Godin

#52. I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

Guy Kawasaki

#53. Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.

Jim Butcher

#54. I want to call you all those gooshy words you use when you love someone, no matter how stupid it sounds.

Charlaine Harris

#55. Prudence tried to hold him back, grip him by the sleeve, but, as everyone knows, or should know, prudence is only of any use when it is trying to conserve something in which we are no longer interested.

Jose Saramago

#56. Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts - so what?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#57. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's a process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

James M. Kouzes

#58. I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

Gabrielle Reece

#59. The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

Frederick Lenz

#60. The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Sydney Smith

#61. Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Elizabeth Scott

#62. Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#63. I found the second story that I'd ever written, 20 years ago in Wellington. It was written in the third person, the person most girls use when they want to talk about themselves but don't think anyone will listen.

Chris Kraus

#64. Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.

Richard Jeni

#65. The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something ... it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like.

Pat Martino

#66. PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.

Gilbere Forte

#67. I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.

Duffy

#68. Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

Walt Whitman

#69. I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

Rick Boucher

#70. Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Zygmunt Bauman

#71. I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.

Kara Goucher

#72. One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Philip Kitcher

#73. People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

Victor LaValle

#74. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK

Elie Jerome

#75. When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

Paul Potts

#76. When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

Michael Crichton

#77. When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

Martin Fowler

#78. My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

Michel Gondry

#79. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

Philipp Meyer

#80. It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

Anthony Daniels

#81. I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson

#82. He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

John Steinbeck

#83. I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

Nikki Haley

#84. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

Gerhard Richter

#85. If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Ann Landers

#86. Doctors' investment in radium ... the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims ...

Erland Josephson

#87. Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

John Bingham

#88. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.

Anne Frank

#89. I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.

James Maslow

#90. It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Paul Valery

#91. Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

Aesop

#92. People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Michael Bloomberg

#93. Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

John Dewey

#94. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

Anne Fadiman

#95. When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

Vint Cerf

#96. When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

Jane McGonigal

#97. I don't think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.

Elle Lothlorien

#98. When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

Phil Collins

#99. When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there.

Bill Murray

#100. I reached out and touched his hands and they stilled at once. I had observed - although I did not often make use of the fact - that there were times when a touch could say things that words could not.

Alan Bradley