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Quotes About Use

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
~ Tillie Olsen
I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.
~ Anne Bronte
Deeply encased in snow, I couldn't move and couldn't see, save what my mind could see if I chose to use it, and wishing to die, I used nothing
~ Anne Rice
God didn't give us His Word to use like a weapon or some kind of Hallmark card we can pass across the fence and keep some distance. It is a weapon, but one designed for use against our enemy, not against our sisters. It is meant for encouragement, not for pat answers in the midst of real pain. Just because something is true doesn't mean you must voice that truth in all circumstances.
~ Sheila Walsh
I swear, Z. I was hoping you'd use this time here to show Artemis that you can mingle with people again. (Acheron) Sure you were. Why don't you cover me in shit and tell me it's mud while you're at it? (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who are you talking to?" – Morty "Still in the kitchen, aren't I? Guess I need to keep walking. Oh, look! Yonder is the door, which I'm going to make use of right now." – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.
~ Ryan Lewis
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
He had no sense of compassion for the Wargals who had died for him. They were nothing more than a tool for him to use.
~ John Flanagan
Als hij dat niet wil, dan zal ik mijn bijl als argument moeten gebruiken.' 'Een interessante opvatting van diplomatie heb jij,' zei Crowley met een ironisch lachje. Farrel keek hem bloedserieus aan. 'Ik gebruik eerst de platte kant, niet de scherpe.' Crowley knikte. 'Ja, dat is op een bepaalde manier wel diplomatie te noemen.
~ John Flanagan
In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
~ John Legend
Nay, the extent of ground is of so little value, without labour, that I have heard it affirmed, that in Spain itself a man may be permitted to plough, sow, and reap, without being disturbed, upon land he has no other title to, but only his making use of it.
~ John Locke
though this can scarce happen amongst that part of mankind that have consented to the use of money.
~ John Locke
Consciences are the sort of thing that don't seem really desirable to have, unless you're currently using yours.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She assured herself that the practice of the presence of God, that she had learned with self-discipline of thought and will, was not a selfish thing but something absolutely essential if one's soul was to be of the slightest use.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
He grinned, though his face was strained. "That's it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation—born from the body's factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
If restoration and renewal are to come from the presence of the Lord—and what hope is there without them?—then it is men and women like these whom God will use to turn the tide.
~ Arthur Wallis
Al shook his head. "Honestly," he said. "How can you use such things?" Mary Frances finished her thought. Use was an interesting word, the word for tools, talents, whores. She wanted to say, At least I'm using something , but she looked at his face, and she couldn't.
~ Ashley Warlick
as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
~ August Strindberg
Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
~ Author Unknown
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
~ Author Unknown
If you consider poetry in all its fire of human becoming, at the summit of an inspiration which delivers the new world to us, what can be the use of a biography which tells us the past, the heavy past of the poet?
~ bachelard gaston ii