Quotes About Used

She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.

They had the sad, untouched air of literature paraded for display purposes but never actually used. It was profoundly depressing.

Oh, I admit that not all stories have happy endings, but people prefer what they're used to. If you were to actually ask them, nine out of ten would prefer a storybook existence to a mechanistic universe where happy endings never happen.

It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.

Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.

This henbane was used, in this very manner, we are told, in Shakespeare's works, by Hamlet's uncle, when he poisoned Hamlet's father.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

I feel so used. I find I like it.

It gets used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

So even the word "save" is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading—"destroy one version, save another" would be more accurate.

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.

system that is paging is writing selected, infrequently used pages of memory to disk,

Only time might help, time which surrendered all secrets but only on the inexorable condition, as far as he could tell, that the secret could no longer be used.

I think every journalist understands when they are the beneficiary of hot information that, yes, they have a scoop, but they're also being used. Part of your responsibility as a journalist is to tell the story of why that information is coming to you, consistent with the ground rules of your sourcing.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Were you in love with him?' 'No, I was used to him.