Used Quotes - Page 48

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.