Use Quotes - page 5

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. (José Saramago)
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. View quote
Francis Bacon
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. View quote
Rick Warren
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. View quote
Thomas More
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. View quote
Golda Meir
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. View quote
Denis Diderot
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. (Jack London)
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. View quote
Audre Lorde
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. View quote
André Gide
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. View quote
Robert Collier
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. View quote
Louise L. Hay
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. (Francis of Assisi)
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. View quote
Richard Stallman
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. View quote
Richard Stallman
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? View quote
Steven Spielberg