Used Quotes - Page 63

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.

Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,” or games that leave them confused or with too many “easy” decisions – decisions where there is no learning to be had.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.