Quotes About Use

I believe that things should be used, even rare and valuable things, otherwise they lose their essential nature. That's far worse than being broken.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.

Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn't matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it.

Otherwise we attend to our poets when they are alive—to hear them, to praise them, to despise them, to use them. Death usually removes them. I expect my immortality to expire six minutes after my funeral. Literature is a zero-sum game.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

the environment. Silly things. Porcelain bells, the kind you get at souvenir shops. Cookie cutters you'll never use, because who needs a cookie in the shape of a foot?

get a job writing fortune cookies instead. I could try to write really American ones. Already, I've jotted down a few of them. Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you.

Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford.

It's a great privilege to be permitted to share any part of your thought and confidence. It puts me in spirits again and makes me feel as if my private life had been recreated. But, better than that, it makes me hope that I may be of some use to you, to lighten the days with whole-hearted sympathy and complete understanding. That will be a happiness indeed.

In shelters, the danger posed by poison gas was a particular concern. People were encouraged to wear their gas masks for thirty minutes a day, so that they would grow accustomed to their use.

No problem. Get some sleep." "You, too." He shook his head. "Not just yet for me." Keras cracked his neck. "I'm still wearing my trouble coat, and I never got to use it.

The road meandering around the hill bore the signs of intensive use. For it was used, and used intensively.