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Quotes About Use

Their bickering erupted in drunken pawing at a party with me providing the background hysterics. I needn't have bothered. Their standoff was the stumbling dance of idiot bears wearing strapped-on antlers they had no idea how to use.
~ Sybil Rosen
JUst as the mechanism be sed for war so it can be used for peace. I'st the The Fogg's familys plan to get the mechanism working and then use it for world peace;
~ Tahir Shah
They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness––it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument.
~ Jung Chang
How much ammunition?" "No idea. How do I find out?" He explained. In the moonlight, she felt the bulges of the cartridges in the cylinder. "Six," she said. "And you don't know how to use it?" "No." "But you are American." "Ha-ha." Meyer, Kai (2012-02-14). Arcadia Awakens (p. 375). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
~ Kai Meyer
I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
~ Larry King
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.
~ Francis Bacon
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~ Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar
~ Francis Bacon
In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.
~ Francis Frangipane
A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
~ Franklin P. Jones
A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
~ Franklin P. Jones
Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?
~ Franny Billingsley
Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He smiled. The ability to drink and not grow drunk—an advantage of pewter that nobody had told him about. There had to be a way to use such a skill.
~ Brandon Sanderson
B)ut what use is even the best of remedies, concocted by the most learned of apothecaries, if the patient throws the mixture out of the window and his physician after it?
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
I speak to] the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them. There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am, indeed, set over them for their own good only, and was created for their use, and not they for mine.
~ Henry Fielding
He had brought home to her, and always by remarks that were really quite soundless, the conception, hitherto ungrapsed, of some complete use of her wealth itself, some use of it as a counter-move to fate.
~ Henry James
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
~ Ron Kind
A lot of artists are blind to how to use these crucial social media platforms - you don't have to put all your faith on other people; you can do it yourself.
~ William Singe
The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.
~ Nicholas Culpeper
I grew up surrounded by generously yielding plum trees, and as a family we were constantly on the hunt for inspired ways to use up the lovely plums before age got the better of them.
~ Rachel Khoo
Only those who can see, feel, and use the power of love, can enjoy the beauty and ecstasy of life.
~ Debasish Mridha