Used Quotes - Page 27

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.

People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

Imagine if the headless horseman had a headless horse. That would be chaos. I would think that if you were the headless horseman's horse, you would be very confused. "I don't think this dude can see."

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.