Used Quotes - Page 7

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.