Quotes About Use

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.

Life is the gift of being able to do something, so use it

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.