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Quotes About Use

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
~ Mark Twain
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Waste is the word coined by mankind to hide their incapabilities & unawareness to use something usefully
~ Siddharth Astir
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
~ Simone Elkeles
In the state he's in, my child, your love is of no use to him—the whole world might love him and to him it would be of no use. Alas, if only men could love not with half their heart but with the whole heart God has given us, then no one would deserve to die. But as you see, no one is immortal, and that is how the world goes around.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
~ Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
~ Sir Thomas More
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
~ Herb Kelleher
Love is the use one makes of another.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.
~ Jay Kesler
I am inspired to design experiences that people actually need and love to use.
~ Tom Gruber
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
~ William S. Burroughs
Hanna had no use for statistics, I soon realized that. She let me deliver a whole lecture—in the bathroom—about statistics, and at the end all she said was: "Your bath is getting cold.
~ Max Frisch
God doesn't manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.
~ Max Lucado
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
~ bell hooks
Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.
~ bell hooks
Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found.
~ Ben Fountain
I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I'd rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.
~ Ben Fountain
God can use our tongues to bring about stunning results, whether immediately or over time. He is not, however, likely to regularly infuse an instrument that is also employed for opposing purposes. In other words, the wrong use of the instrument can dramatically hinder its effectiveness with the right use.
~ Beth Moore
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
~ Chris Sacca
The product of careful continuity is love....Trust, intimacy, intense use, and time are what made these buildings work so well.
~ Stewart Brand
Just as a human uses depth perception as part of everyday life, so do denizens in some other Realms use clairvoyance.
~ Stewart Wieck
don't know that word you use. Your body is shedding the dirtiest blood and dead eggs. This attracts Ahriman.
~ Sujata Massey
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
~ Edward St Aubyn