Quotation Explorer - 'Used'

When I was a kid, I used think that my mother has some kind of magic in her hands because the same food eaten by her hands, tasted different.And now when I am grown up.. I am sure.. she has some magic in her hands.. - Himmilicious

Penises! if used incorrectly it becomes man's worst enemy, worst nightmare. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz

A complicated idea is a confused idea. - Marty Rubin

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms. - Niles Eldredge

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity. - Todd Stocker

No matter how you feel you have to actlike you are very popular with yourself;very relaxed and purposefulvery unconfusedand notlike you are walking through the sunshinesingingin chains. - Tony Hoagland

Why should she have to feel unsafe? Didn't this world belong to her as much as it belonged to any man? Yes it did. McKenna refused to let them make her feel unsafe, either by cornering her, or by making her feel like she needed one to protect her - Marina Gessner

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? - Richard D. Wolff

People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it. - Noel Coward

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.' - Marilyn Monroe

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes. - Jeff Nunokawa

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. - Lurlene McDaniel

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward. - Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much. - Stephanie Nielson

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment. - Gary Hopkins

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. - Sylvia Plath

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open. - Mark A. Noll

When I’ve lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess – deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I’ll know what to do. - Steve Goodier

One [dogma] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators. - Steven Pinker

It is staggering the amount of suffering caused by bad ideas. - Marty Rubin

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' - Roy Blount Jr.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. - Samuel Johnson

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. - Immanuel Kant

Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age. - Widad Akreyi

The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear. - Purushothaman Kollam

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes. - Douglas Adams

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk - Oche Otorkpa

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

Our Lord took on a body like ours and lived as a man in order that those who had refused to recognize Him in His superintendence and capacity of the whole universe might come to recognize from the works He did here below in the body that what dwelled in this body was the Word of God. - Athanasius of Alexandria

Women, mused Achilles. Strange creatures. They make us mad. They make us love and they make us fight. - Tomichan Matheikal

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. - Unknown

Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world. - Debasish Mridha

There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity - Prabhukrishna M

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies. - Billy Graham

Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you. - Moazzam Shaikh

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach. - Michael Hofmann

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used. - Newton G Kibiringi

When all you have to face life situations with the attitude forced on to you by society traditions, you will then regret not being the mad you used to be but will never be again. - Sameh Elsayed

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. - Colin Wilson

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused - Amit Abraham

Okay. Chase paused for a beat. But can I give you a word of advice? No. Chase grinned and went on. If you make Bridget unhappy, you’re gonna make Maddie unhappy. And that’s going to make me very unhappy. - J. Lynn

The first half of your life goes in selecting the best and odd ones, the second half in getting used to the other.The first half of your life you dream how best you can live, the second half in getting accustomed with the other. - Ramana Pemmaraju

Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. - Saurabh Sharma

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are? - Neal Shusterman

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI

If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me. - David G. McAfee

…the gavel became an extension of his arm and he used it to bludgeon the court into submission. - William Deihl

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen

Marketers are focused and sales people are scattered! - johd di lemme

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind. - Tiffany Winfree

I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life. - Steve Maraboli

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to. - Dan Simmons

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. - Widad Akreyi

Live beyond your capability, be an eccentric with focused sincerity. - Debasish Mridha

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. - Peter F. Drucker

We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination. - Sir Winston Churchill

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. - Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If you want to do something—you can do it! You just have to be focused and persistent. - Debasish Mridha

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. - Willa Cather

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good. - Oprah Winfrey

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this. - Margaret Atwood

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. - Gabrielle Zevin

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. - Emo Philips

Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop). - Dada Bhagwan

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. - Athol Fugard

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child? - Daniel J. Siegel

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given. - Álvaro de Campos

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. - Janet Evanovich

God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth to be used in that proportion - Anonymous

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. - Dante Alighieri

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. - Eudora Welty

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. - Solomon Short

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. - Nancy Astor

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself - Han Kang, The Vegetarian

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. - Cory Doctorow

She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone. - Donna Lynn Hope

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy

The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough to recognize them - P. A. Speers

Successful innovators are..not risk-focused; they are opportunity focused. - Peter Drucker

I smile more when people confused, why he is smiling. - Rahul Bodkhe

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage. - Mitch Albom

People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all. - Richie Norton

There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all,I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night. - Mrinaal

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. - Stephen Colbert

I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both. - Cristen Rodgers

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. - Hasidic Saying

Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie - irrfan ishaq

Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’! - Dada Bhagwan

Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon. - Escoffier, Auguste

Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong. - Sandra Chami Kassis

Success or failure inbusiness is caused more by mental attitude even than by mentalcapacity." Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confidentattitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—toacquire it. - Walter Dill Scott

Work on your goals, one step at a time. Remain focused and do not stop. You will be amazed how much you can accomplish over the years. In most things in life, it is not the speed but the consistency that matters. - Roopleen

Most of us are too focused on our future that we forget to live our present. - Raaz Ojha

Nothing is lost that cannot be refound" she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority "this is the Dark Goddess's promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be. - Karen Clark

Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles. - Regina Griffin

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . - Ali Shariati - علی شریعتی

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. - Eduardo Galeano

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes. - Ambrose Bierce

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me. - Trishna B. made it up myself

...the movie is on, but I’m not really watching…the music is playing, but I’m not really listening…all of my senses are focused on you… us… the way your hand fits mine… the way our hearts beat as one… the passion that we’re engulfed in… the love we make... the life we build. - Steve Maraboli

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us. - RVM

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. - M.F. Moonzajer

i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry - Megan Boyle

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life. - Clive Culverhouse

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God… - Steve Wozniak

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. - Douglas Coupland

The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs. - Tom Vater

I am Chandubhai’ is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). ‘I am Pure Soul’, is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured. - Dada Bhagwan

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free - Rachel Higginson

Those who find themselves in the "You are going to miss my loving" section Without LOVE are the ones who abused their relationship by not appreciating the person who was giving them the love they no longer have. - Ellen J. Barrier

If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essence warns youdont follow my pathto extinction - Allen Ginsberg

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. - Henry Kissinger

Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope,will I fall ,If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns - Bluenscottish

She breathes Hope in and out.When asked Why ? She said becausehope gives me"that" in tomorrowwhich "The Today" refused. - Wordions

I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial. - Joan Rivers

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I Used to think that I knew everything, I was alone. My heart was empty, a single soul experience of life. When I discovered in a pair of eyes, a light reflection of mine, I found my mate, my match, my soul. - Katia M. S.

It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn’t completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. - Frederick Douglass

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer. - Pete Hamill

90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ladies and gentlemen can always come to an agreement. - Stefan Emunds

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guin

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. - Robin Williams

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." - Katherine Dunham

People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answer questions. They are basically focused on what they do not know, and only exceptionally on what they do know. - Eraldo Banovac

We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I don’t know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry. - Berry Quotes

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. - Latin Proverb

Your heart should not be used as a compass for out of it can come deceit, evil thoughts, and actions. - Pauline Seaport

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late. - Paulo Coelho

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. - Niels Bohr

The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. Results are what you get when you follow the rules. Consequences are the results of negative choices. Your thoughts become your actions. Your thoughts should be focused on what you desire. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone. - Conchitina Cruz

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. - Dorothy Parker

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. - William Safire

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. - Sidney Madwed

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves... ☥ - Luis Marques

Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, 'Prayer happened, and I was there" more than "I prayed today". All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being prayed through -- and you are no longer in the drivers seat. - John Predmore

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. - Marilyn Monroe

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. - Rick Warren

Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to. - Amy B. Scher

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused. - Onyi Anyado

Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on. - Antonia Montoya

We're born along and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them. - Erlend Loe

I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them. - Jeanne d'Arc

Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi). - Dada Bhagwan

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. - Henry David Thoreau

you felt like you always been sadand sorrow used to live in you dailyonly hope keep you alive sometimesyou should always remember that,without sorrow and sadnessyou won't known the essenceof happiness and success - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. - Sir Arthur Eddington

saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life. - Annoymous

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. - George Bernard Shaw

Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition. - K.J. Kilton

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war. - Madeline Martin

The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out. - J. Oswald Sanders

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. - Gordon Atkinson

Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul). - Dada Bhagwan

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health. - Steven Magee

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing. - Robert Jordan

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength. - Jim George

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.[CNN interview (December 8, 2010)] - Steve Wozniak

Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. - Elbert Hubbard

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. - Mamur Mustapha

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better. - Darnell Lamont Walker

I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives. - V.C. Andrews

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use. - Thomas Szasz

If you are only focused on the Money... You risk completely overlooking the People. - Ted Rubin

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. - Jean M. Auel

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly. - Robert K. Massie

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children. - Marguerite Duras

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached. - Sara Sheridan

I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her. - Stanley Gazemba

Every past used to be a future once upon a time - Munia Khan

Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation. - At-Tirmidhī -أبو عيسى الترمذي

Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. - Frank A. Oski

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. - Publilius Syrus

[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence. - Franz Kafka

Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents. - Michael Krondl

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up - Lenny Bruce

The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used. - Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Love is the most potent drug used to seduce anyone. - Debasish Mridha

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. - Edward R. Murrow

We used to meet on the beach or in the bush. Now we meet at the Prescription counter. - John Cameron Smith

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere - T-anne Constable

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be - Jamaica Kincaid

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. - Dame Edna Everage

Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who’d be next? - Peter J. Tanous

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds. - Russell T. Davies

Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I used to think there was a secret when it came to success, until I read a shit load of books and posts and realized the secret is the millionaires are getting rich off idiots like me who believe there truly is a secret. - James Jean-Pierre

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like. - N'Zuri Za Austin

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. - J. R. R. Tolkien

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to. - Erica Eisdorfer

One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. - Jael McHenry

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle. - Bryant McGill

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor - Herman Melville

Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. - Ambrose Bierce

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Key to Staying Focused is to know what to Eliminate and then Doing so. - David C. Alves

If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin. - Richie Norton

You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me - Karen Gibbs

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it - Anonymous

Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis

Whenever a person or agency has substantially more power than others, their behaviour are not democratic. and if in any circumstances their acts are not supervised then Power is always misused by certain people.Humanity is most important state and that is missing throughout world. - Vikram Singh Slathia

Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE) - Tony Dovale

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. - Shannon L. Alder

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever. - Jill Telford

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak. That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember… - Nina Guilbeau

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. - Josh Malerman

I’ve always wondered though, Orn mused aloud, what does God need with a starship?Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?Until they learn a new position. - Sabrina Zbasnik

And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love - Georges Limbour

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. - I. F. Stone

If you Love Happy Life,Save EARTH from getting more dirty & abused.I will be GREEN again … Tree's inner voice - krvishal

There Are No Coincidences, Only Reasons Why and Timing is Key! That is My Life Quote and made up and used by me specifically, everyday because I not only believe it but live it every single day. - Elaine Breault

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. - Joyce Carol Oates

A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time. - Sunday Adelaja

The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -- maybe I should have used four dots. - Donald E. Knuth

I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death. - Steve Maraboli

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. - Pat Conroy

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. - Erica Goros

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior. - David W. Earle

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. - George Santayana

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. - anonymous

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you. - Dennis E. Adonis

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. - Luke Montgomery

To become the best terrorists of your kind, it will take about 30,000 hours on focused practice. How you think of achieving a goal is not the same as how you want to achieve a goal. Not everything you think about is done the right way it should be done. - Prince Akwarandu

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. - Raphael Zernoff

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? - William Arthur Ward

I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind. - Donna Lynn Hope

When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm. - Francis de Sales

Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again. - Munia Khan

Am confused, after been hurt and betrayed i still love her. Still confused, does it mean the feeling after love is hurt and pain then it comes back to love. Meaning love is stronger than all the other feelings. confused. - Matthew Kweku Arkutu

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. - Sam Ewing

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value. - Willi Way

Don't ruin a relationship, by giving it a name.A potential lover. A lover of the present and An ace of the past.These months, years and ages, might just forget the memory And remember the terms you used to file them in a draft. - Shillpi S Banerrji

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises. - Bridie Clark

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. - George Orwell

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!" - Louis C. K.

The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine - John E. Wordslinger

People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. - Tanya Huff

Little Red Riding Hood was stalked; Cinderella was abused; the Beauty had to live with a hideous Beast; Snow White was poisoned; Hansel and Gretel were meat for a cannibal… and then we wonder why our kids grow up with problems. - Ashwin Sanghi

I used to [have regrets]. But I forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it, too.

I won't regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be. - Kate Nash

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' - Cary Grant

Government itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in government – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death. - - Larken Rose

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you. - Jeff Goins, The Art Of Work

A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how they sense condescension. - Patty Smith

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. - Stewart L. Udall

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live. - Philip Henry

Most Kids Are Confused Whether School Is More Important Than God Or God Is More Important. - Cyc Jouzy

If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it. - Assegid Habtewold

When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great constellation,The place where a star used to be - D.H. Lawrence

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. - Kurt Vonnegut

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility. - Lorrie Moore

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging - Veronica Roth

Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces. - F. H. Batacan

It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying. - Marty Rubin

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. - Unknown

As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator." - Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't. - Chris Burkmenn

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business. - Amit Kalantri

It's being without him that I'll never get used to. - Christopher Buecheler

Life is like a pencil, it can either be wasted; or, be used to create something beautiful. - Juan F. Cisneros Cisneros

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. - Joseph Conrad

I fell in love... she caused a type of smile within me that nothing else can or has. - Steve Maraboli

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease. - Susan Sontag

Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again. - Sarah Thebarge

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. - Marilyn Monroe

I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. - Oscar Arias

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear. - Seth Godin

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was. - Brenda Perlin

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2 - Alexia Purdy

Time is a creation of vague mind used to describe an unknown dimension in the 3D world. - Vishwanath S J

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get... - Deyth Banger

Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier

To live without zest is to live without an appetite for new experiences, to miss out on the spice, the juice, the edge that makes life thrilling. It is to live with deadened, flattened senses, with your passions unaroused and your curiosity untapped. - Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife. - William Blake

It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used. - Jess Walter

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts - Nigel Hey

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. - Andy Zaltzman

The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man. - Sunday Adelaja

Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall. - Ellen J. Barrier

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. - Clive Culverhouse

The leader must be focused on the goal. - Sunday Adelaja

Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes. - Dada Bhagwan

It is aptly said FACEBOOK for it being used only as a BOOK by most people for the compilation of own photo to show their true FACE only. - Anuj Somany

Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the horror and shame and sorrow to give her strength. The burning parts of her no one and nothing can ever touch, the fire where her soul used to be. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death. - Santosh Kalwar

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword. - Anonymous

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary - Gerald Edelman

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. - Peter De Vries

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. - Dan Quayle

Models are to be used, not believed.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life. - Paul David Washer

We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of. We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love. - Raphael Zernoff

<<... People with 'a vision for betterment',cannot afford to have "hope", as "hope" is only usedfor the passification of the masses.~ People with 'vision', KNOW it is going to be betterbeCAUSE it is an inevitability, in fact....>>~ Ale3ia - Chevalieuse de Faeinoterre Helia

Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations. - Adhish Mazumder

We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack. - Markus Zusak

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever. - M.F. Moonzajer

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. - A.J. Russell

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? - Grace Kelly

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. - James Thurber

When you used violence to achieve "peace"; what did you achieve ? -Supressed violence! - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. - Samuel Adams

That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk - Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name. - Fall Out Boy

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money. - Amit Kalantri

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste. - Israelmore Ayivor

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. - G. K. Chesterton

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. - Jose Luis Borges

You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it. - Debasish Mridha

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. - David Foster Wallace

You get used to... what you want to get used to. - Steven Lyle Jordan

Of all the days dropped in time's pocketThis day will seek acknowledgement with a child's shy asking, because the love between us used no word uncommoner than coffee, and was never traced by graphs of huge emotion. Yet some fancy will recall this day hallowed past recognition. - Vassar Miller Bagatelle

Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life. - Yasmine El Rashidi

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice. - Mark Horton

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem. - Ambrose Bierce

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

If only I had used my powers for good instead of for trivia! - Hermester Barrington

What are you gonna help us with? That very tiny used condom? - Booth

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you - Munia Khan

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. - Daniel Radcliffe

A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too… Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. Too caught up with being in love. - Shanora Williams

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions. - Debasish Mridha

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me. - D.R. Silva

There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up. - Chuck Palahniuk

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. - Tara Bray Smith

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering. - Atul Gawande

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit. - Leon Festinger

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away. - Edwin Markham

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. - Lady Gaga

There’s nothing mysterious about Cosmic Ordering, it’s simply a method used to transmute thought into reality. - Stephen Richards

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. - Ambrose Bierce

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? - Virginia Woolf

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. - Sarah Palin

Age is a bunch of bullshit, the wise parts, the inner soul, and the inner maturity is what we should really be focused on. - Mekiah Johnson

Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world. - Debasish Mridha

Women are aroused by the strangest things, like a rock going through their bedroom window - Josh Stern

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan). - Dada Bhagwan

Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men. - Auberon Herbert

When your resources are focused on what has been you cannot create all that can still be. - Toni Sorenson

I'm not the person I used to be. I never was. - Marty Rubin

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process. - Shannon L. Alder

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you - William Arthur Ward

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without even having to open his eyes. - Georges Simenon

I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore. - Girl234

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - Johann von Neumann

You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places - Rachel Thompson

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. - Kurt Cobain

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. - Shannon L. Alder

you told me onceabout how they usedto build whole city statesout of poemshow everything you see hereis made out ofthe bones of dreamshow having a stiffdrink with lorca meantyou had to writeeverything down right awaylately the words justwon’t come - John Dorsey

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. - abhinavsr abhinav srivastava

Beauty is not caused. It is. - Emily Dickinson

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people! - Israelmore Ayivor

We’re going to make a tunnel for that ship. We’re going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya… he paused. I’ll handle it myself, do you understand? Johan… Vital Perception - D.L. Given

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. - Unknown

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104. - Craig Ferguson

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up. - David McGee

FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty. - A.E. Samaan

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction. - Ambrose Bierce

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. - Richard Sibbes

Nothing better than this moments of new year, to say : goodbye last day, last month, last year. Do i confused to say goodbye facebook? goodbye virtual world? - Nabil TOUSSI

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. - Margaret Thatcher

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. - Paul McCartney

How people started to disappear??It's an interesting question isn't it?I guess on 89% sure that they are killed in the time, we live in the future and they are killed in the past... so far a time teleport used by the adults! - Deyth Banger

Stand tall and face YOUR truth. Speak boldly and be confident in what you say. Don't just dream, but take the steps to get where you want to be. Stay motivated, determined, and focused because YOU are worth it! Giving up is NOT an option. Keep your eyes on what matters and what's truly important. - Stephanie Lahart

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. - Robert Collier

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists. - Stefan Molyneux

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be. - Sanhita Baruah

I laugh when i'm hurt.I laugh when i'm confused.I laugh when i'm angry.I laugh because others will laugh as well, and while we are laughing, I feel okay for a while. - Damien Buerger

This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open. - —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. - Petar Dunov

Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen. - Sunday Adelaja

I used to think meditation served the purpose of clearing my mind of dreams. Good and bad, dreams do affect us in our daily mood. Now I wonder if meditation unlocks them, utilizes the wisdom that has been sent to us by our subconscious. - Robert Black

I used to give advice, and no one wanted it. Now I give suggestions and everyone asks for more. - Monika Zands

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. - Naomi Wolf

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it. - Jennifer Donnelly

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call us home through chastenings, we rebelled against Him and His actions and again refused to come home to the Father. What else should He do with us? - M. Basilea Schlink

The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance. - Billy Graham

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused. - Keith Richards

Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems. - Michael Bassey Johnson

No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused? - Kamand Kojouri

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. - Farrah Fawcett

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. - David Sarnoff

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness. - John Green

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning. - Jim Corbett

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. - Paulo Coelho

We all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren't looking that all changed....what the summer actually brought was independence from each other. - Now and Then

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. - Toni Morrison

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes. - Rita Rudner

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs

Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations. - Sunday Adelaja

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination. - Zweig, Stefan

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right. - Desmond Tutu

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. - Mark Twain

Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity. - Unknown

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted. - Mae West

There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place. - Stine Saugmann

Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress,Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it. - Tina J. Richardson

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. - Lana Del Rey

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you. - Switchfoot

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are. - Dale Archer

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. - Lee Iacocca

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out. - R.C. Sherriff

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension. - Václav Havel

The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused. - Tony Dovale

I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers. - Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance. - Bahman Solati

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me. - Jon Katz

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. - Bob Proctor

Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up. - Eraldo Banovac

I’m almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants? - Dani Harper

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: No, you". - Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not. - Wendy Lesser

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups. - Bastiat, Frederick

Life is not fair, get used to it - Bill Gates

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity - Bill Bryson

The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway. - Wallace Wang

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. - David Frost

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. - Al Capone

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get used to looking for God's glory in each other. - Kevin Paterson

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. - C. E. Montague

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. - Sarah Kay

The only truly logical explanation that gives credence to the fact that information does not come from non-information, is that some outside force – some uncaused cause – existed before us and formed us in His image. If there is a creation there must be a creator. - J.W. Lord

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. - Charles Caleb Colton

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers. - Habeeb Akande

Expectations paint illusions Experience paints a pictureOptical Illusions manufacture confused expectations and experiences. - Goitsemang Mvula

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also. - Nin

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness. - Sarah Kay

Do you notice the abused of your society? Take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world. - Sunday Adelaja

Stay focused; leave everything and do something - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. - Gore Vidal

In every colour there's the light.In every stone sleeps a crystal.Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:Man is the dream of the dolphin - Enigma

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable. - A.E. Samaan

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent. - Csaba Gabor-B.

...the [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. - Steven Pinker

What you stay focused on will grow. - Roy T. Bennett

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness. - Anonymous

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. - Ambrose Bierce

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard

Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. - Emo Phillips

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets. - Karen Davis

I used to dream, and I used to vow;I wouldn't dream of it now. - Morrissey

We didn't install the [Code Red] patch on those DMZ systems because they were only used for development and testing. — Anonymous client, shortly after spending 48 continuous hours removing 2001's Code Red worm from internal corporate servers - Mark G. Graff

If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern. - Mitchell Rhodes

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. - Oswald Chambers

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. - Edith Nesbitt

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty. - Shannon L. Alder

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. - Robin Williams

The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".''Do I? - Patrick Rothfuss

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard

Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance. - Steve Maraboli

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses. - Alper Mazun

Every now and then I have to take a backward step in giving in. Not because of expecting something in return. But because I want to see how far God has changed me from what I used to be. I guess this is the only pain of humility! To offer your own heartbeat every single day! - Carvic Valdellon

Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used. - Stephen Richards

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.McGough: Really? When?Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ... - Graham Chapman

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities. - C.S. Lewis

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used them. - Khrys Vaughan

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am. - Jason Letts

If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. - Paul McCartney

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral. - Christopher Hitchens

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be. - Ron Hall

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. - Pearl S. Buck

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening. - Budd Schulberg

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana. - Betty White

The first person to fire out of your life when you take your power back, is the one you abused the most, and he or she did not stand up for him/herself. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. - Asa Don Brown

Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG to walk towards what Christ used a compassionate FLESH to build for you - Israelmore Ayivor

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. - Matt Chandler

If you aren't constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them. - Rob Liano

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. - Woodrow Wilson

Miracles are caused by the laws of nature that are yet to be discovered. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air. - Robert Fanney

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. - Mother Teresa

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

You find the meaning in life by giving yourself away not by satisfying yourself. The most gratifying thing, at 73 years old, is to be able to think that your life was used to help others.

Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable tin ear makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ") - Erik Pevernagie

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America’s oligarchy. - Kenneth Eade

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. - Andrew Smith

And there were times where I missed everyone I missed everything and everyone to the bone, I missed younger years where days were easy and everything was so innocently cheesy, I missed myself and my friends and the persons we used to be. - Thoughts And Writings @wnq-writers.com

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. - Martha Graham

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves. - Cesare Pavese

Prayer is not meant to be a burden or used as a badge of holiness. Instead, it is a gift of God that when used properly should yield great victory in our lives. - Paul Silway

Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems... - Asa Don Brown

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am - John Newton

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it's so hard to refuse. - Elvis Costello

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say. - Kami Garcia

The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers. - Steve Maraboli

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous. - Thucydides

You used to make me feel like I could walk on waterNow most nights I'm just sinking down and downYou're the reason why I can't listen to the same songs I used to - Real Friends