Used Quotes · Page 460

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

— Elbert Hubbard

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

— Duke of Wellington

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

— Pat Buchanan

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your…

— Octavia Butler

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I used to enjoy back-picking big guys all the time.

— Rex Chapman

Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong;…

— Kelly Clarkson

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

— Roger Daltrey

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision…

— Conrad Veidt

I was aware that age is on my side and I used the time to work on my looks and style.

— Nithiin

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that…

— Ashwin Sanghi

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I…

— Vince Staples

I used to walk around trying to do the Britney Spears growl: 'Oh, baby, baby.'

— Kelsea Ballerini

I'm still on the edge. It's just that I don't want to hurt the team by going over that edge. I've learned…

— Ed Belfour

For me, having kids was a complete gamechanger. Overnight, your entire world changes - it's incredible. The 'smaller things' you used to…

— Frankie Bridge

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been…

— Gary Shteyngart

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of…

— Britt Ekland

I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.

— Woody Harrelson

I think we ought to use the same formula that we used when we took out Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. We have…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

— Jeff Bridges

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

— Chanel Iman

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or…

— John Welwood

The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And…

— Anne Waldman

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly…

— Jim Woodring

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and…

— Conrad Black

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to…

— John Waters

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

— Pankaj Kapur

We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people…

— Greg Gutfeld

I think that we need to allow words to be words. If my self-esteem and my self-worth linger on words that are…

— Philomena Kwao

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

— Pharrell Williams

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not…

— Gloria Steinem

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 =…

— J. C. Watts

I exercise each day for three hours. I don't get to visit the akhada every day, since I keep travelling, but my…

— Sangram Singh

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

— Leighton Meester