Widely Used Sayings

#1. I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.

Laura Lippman

#2. The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

Jessica Valenti

#3. Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Carolyn Maloney

#4. I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used.

Ronald Coase

#5. It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

Peter Van Inwagen

#6. At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#7. With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

Mike Krzyzewski

#8. The cultivation theory has been widely used in the study of violence in television.

Anonymous

#9. Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Merton Miller

#10. What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.

Brian Behlendorf

#11. We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

Janet E. Smith

#12. Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

Bill Bryson

#13. Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society.
I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

Toba Beta

#14. Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.

Francois Quesnay

#15. The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims ... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.

David Alan Harvey

#16. Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

Robert Manne

#17. Focus group methods by Adam Gottbetter are find their way into and are widely used to examine people's experiences of disease and of health services.

Adam Gottbetter

#18. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

George Soros

#19. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.

Richard Sheridan

#20. We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

Keith Devlin

#21. In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander the Great, and widely used in Mediterranean empires.

Steven Pinker

#22. I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Pope Paul VI

#23. When I read students' attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

Julius Lester

#24. After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#25. Abigail, it's not what you think. I want you, I do, but I'm not willing to risk messing up what we have. It's not worth it for a quick f**k.

Gabbie S. Duran

#26. I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.

Adam Sandler

#27. Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

Charles Edward Montague

#28. My gut feeling says he needs a second chance. Like we all do." WINTER'S PAST

Mary E. Hanks