Uses Quotes
958 quotes by 800 authors
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Don’t be jealous, baby. We’ll get to you in a jiffy. (Daimon) Jiffy? What kind of pathetic wuss uses the word ‘jiffy’? (Xypher)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and…
— Thomas Hardy
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I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in…
— Nora Roberts
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If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
— Milan Kundera
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You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
— Scott Adams
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There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
— Jan Karon
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it…
— Elizabeth Moon
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[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link…
— Charles Stanley
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I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising…
— Dave Eggers
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Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove…
— Blaise Pascal
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Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be…
— Rachel Maddow
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Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound…
— Lauren Oliver
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
— Seth Godin
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help…
— Francine Prose
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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of…
— Andre Agassi
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Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes…
— Janet Fitch
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All…
— Shashi Tharoor
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