Quotes about use

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“and a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon.”

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“Leo: "So… giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”

“I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.”

“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." […] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.”

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

“People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do.
We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more
like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a
country without an army.”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”

“All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

“I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.”

“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us…”

“I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.”

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

“You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?”

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose I you phone first.”

“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”

“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”

“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”

“What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?”

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”

“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”

“Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?”

“We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.”

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”

“I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”

“He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up.”

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.”

“Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”

“Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen”

“But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.”

“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”

“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”

“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

“She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

“It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away…”

“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”

“I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.”

“God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.”

“Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!”

“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

“I think… that when it comes to us, anything is possible.”

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

“Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.”

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

“some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.”

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

“To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.”

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

“Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. “There’s only one good use for a man like Heath Champion.”

“Here we go again,” Molly muttered.

Phoebe’s lip curled. “Target practice.”

“I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.”

“The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”

“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

“… what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”

“Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war.”

“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”

“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”

“The choices we make, make us.”

“Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity”

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”

“Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.”

“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”

“There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.”

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

“You guys are weird," Tori said.
Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.”