Used Quotes - Page 18

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.