Used Quotes · Page 76

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

— Herman Melville

“I used to be a know it all, then I learnt something else”

— Benny Bellamacina

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

— Danny Glover

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

— Magnus Carlsen

I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

— Joan of Arc

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

— Greg Saunier

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

— Brett Somers

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

— Keith Emerson

It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me…

— Richard Branson

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment…

— Robert Redford

There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its…

— Mario Botta

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working…

— Tony Dungy

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those…

— Jonathan Kozol

From what little is known of Mr. Trump's tax returns, he used losses to offset virtually all of his taxable income for…

— James B. Stewart

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with…

— Sabrina Carpenter

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used…

— Ian Mckellen

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it…

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools…

— Hillary Clinton

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting…

— Brian Froud

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given…

— Robert Conquest

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at…

— Loretta Lynn

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will…

— Mary J. Blige

We have now spent 1 trillion dollars waging the drug war since it began. A trillion. Those funds could have been used…

— Michelle Alexander

I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr.…

— John Lewis

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

— Bob Seger

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

— Wendy Liebman

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.

— Ryan Montgomery

When we used to live in a chawl during our childhood, we would play Holi with water balloons.

— Rakhi Sawant

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

— Cyndi Lauper

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out…

— Fred Durst

In fact, I was very conscious of my accent and used to hesitate in talking to people.

— Amrapali Gupta

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

— William Safire

I'm way stronger than I used to be. I actually work out now.

— Kevin Holland

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

— Amy Acker

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

She used to treat the guys all the same until she found out they were all the same.

— Raghib Clitso

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

— Cherie Lunghi

I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.

— Domino Kirke

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.

— David Wilkerson

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

— John Calipari