Top 1200 Used And Abused Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman; you need to stand up for yourself. If you have been abused, you deserve justice.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae hard. Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae. But I was always DJing out my window for the whole estate. Everyone used to sit outside and all and listen. And I used to be running rhythms in that.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

It's their belief, their own will, that holds people in Scientology, even oftentimes when they have been abused.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

My oldest brother and my middle brother would always beat me up and take the ball from me. I used to cry a lot, so I used to come in here and get my dad. He used to be on my team, so he used to hold them down and let me score the basket.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free will and abused it by not obeying authority. Hell was created by Satan’s disobedience to God, and his purposeful removal from God’s love—which is what hell is. Removing yourself from God’s love. You send yourself to hell. God does not send you there.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

For too long, Big-Tech has abused its powers and targeted the constitutional rights of American citizens.

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Wealth can be used to make a huge difference in the world; social media can be used to have a positive impact on people, or it can be used for exactly the opposite.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.