Use Quotes - Page 113

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

I'm a personal type of person. I'll speak when I have something to say, not 'cause someone just wants to know something.

Pele should go back to the museum.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.