Use Quotes - Page 237

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.