Uses Quotes

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

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.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.