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Quotes About Use

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
~ George Eliot
An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.
~ Poemen
Remember, these things are designed for amateurs." "Tell me about it," Ivy snorted. "The user interface is so easy to use, I can't do anything.
~ Neal Stephenson
If Microsoft ever makes a software package that I use and like, then it really will be time to dump their stock, because I am a market segment of one.
~ Neal Stephenson
Politics." Doob sighed. Luisa chuckled. "I hear you, sugar. I'm not gonna say you're wrong. But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
~ Neal Stephenson
This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?' inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. 'You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
There's a brand, Mr. Bubble, that is sometimes called other things, like Mickey Mouse or other names. That's the stuff I use.
~ Tom Noddy
ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
~ Naval Ravikant
I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you're using it very naturally.
~ Jonathan Ive
biggest use case for parallel processing: artificial intelligence. Today Nvidia's chips, largely manufactured by TSMC, are found in most advanced data centers.
~ Chris Miller
But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.
~ Christopher Bram
Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.
~ Christopher Isherwood
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there's always some Jew to fear and to hate. We need an enemy to give people hope.
~ Umberto Eco
Learning is not like a coin, which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn our through use and ostentation.
~ Umberto Eco
It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing.
~ Upton Sinclair
In Sam's rough mountain-man philosophy those persons who became the wards of sadness and melancholy had never summoned for use and trial more than a part of what they had in them, and so had failed themselves and their Creator.
~ Vardis Fisher
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
~ Victor Hugo
so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
~ Victor Hugo
other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
~ Victor Hugo
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Life is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an investment to be used in the world.
~ L.B. Cowman
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
~ Cassandra Clare
He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and pushed the stele back across the table at him. Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. "Clary-" "She said she doesn't want it," said Simon. "Ha-ha." "Ha-ha?" Jace looked incredulous. "THAT'S your comeback?
~ Cassandra Clare