Uses Quotes
958 quotes by 819 authors
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
— John Ray
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
— James Dickey
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If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
— Nelson Mandela
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Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So…
— Milton Friedman
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
— Zhuangzi
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Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his…
— Caryll Houselander
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
— C.S. Lewis
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
— Luigi Pirandello
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The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons…
— Bill Mollison
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
— Laozi
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The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that…
— Paul Samuelson
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
— William Shakespeare
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Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to…
— H. L. Mencken
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The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would…
— Diane Wood
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,…
— Joan Didion
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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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