Uses Quotes - page 2

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. (Salvatore Quasimodo)
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Arne Jacobsen
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
Shannon Miller
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
Yvonne Craig
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
Dante Alighieri
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. (Robert A. Heinlein)
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
Michael Shermer
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa
The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
Maria Montessori
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello
The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.
Herbert Spencer
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love...
Henry Taylor
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.
Hans Reichenbach
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. (William Carlos Williams)
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
Frank Borman
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Henry Miller
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
George Bernard Shaw