Quotes About Used

What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore. Dylan's feelings wouldn't matter. The loss of her father, whom she loved, wouldn't matter. She would be used to exact revenge.

For a moment, I stare at him stupidly. I am reeling from the kiss, from the swiftness of the violence. I am not yet used to Oak's ability to kill without hesitation and then chagrined about it, as though he did something in slightly poor taste. Spilled a rare vintage of wine, perhaps. Mismatched his trousers to his shirt.

He used her name as often as a desperate real estate agent.

I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also chew me up and spit me out. I felt used.

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Women are more likely than men to experience negative emotions after a hookup. Men are more likely to regret when the woman they hooked up with wants a more serious relationship. Men report that their ideal outcome of a hookup would be more hookups in the future. Women are more likely to report that their ideal outcome would be a romantic relationship. Following hookups, women are more likely than men to report feeling "used" and experiencing depressed mood.42

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than good old-fashioned loathing.

Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.

If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used

don't like the term," said Rhoda frankly. "It's too loosely used nowadays when everybody who has the smallest talent or is out of the ordinary in any way is immediately hailed as a genius;

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one's strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria's Secret catalogs.

We flirted with popularity in high school, which was when people realized that our videos, if used for a class assignment, would get you an automatic A. It took me a few months to realize I was just being used. They would only hang out with us while we were making the film for them.

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Sistersville, which is halfway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. Used to be, my

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books—used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly. ("Look at Clarissa Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she's such a used girl.")

only because language has something in common with the world that it can be used to picture the world, so it is only because of logic that our sentences have meaning at all.

The truth is, if I do miraculously manage to put the right words together, it's by default, because I've already used up all the wrong ones.

The most reliable way of determining what a word in a dead language means is to see how the word is used in context. Once

I guess I just got fed up wit feeling unappreciated, feelin like an option, being taking advantage of, etc.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

I'm not a real central-Moscow kid. I'm not used to luxury stuff.

In this world people are used to doing by magic what we do by science.