Quotes with abused

  • And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
  • Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
  • Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

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  • George L. Jackson Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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  • George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Francis Quarles Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • H.G. Wells He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Schwartz I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Pope If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Albert Ellis Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Beck There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • James Baldwin When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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