Used Quotes - Page 9

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.

Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.

You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.