Uses Quotes

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You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to… — Michael Steele
We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy… — David Suzuki
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather… — Paul Theroux
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use… — Eckhart Tolle
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. — Miguel de Unamuno
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle. — Donatella Versace
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! — Emma Watson
Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world. — Vivienne Westwood
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore… — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of… — Geoff Mulgan
The street finds its own uses for things. — William Gibson
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. — Dag Hammarskjold
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation… — Jose Saramago
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. — Herman Melville
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the… — Anthony Burgess

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