So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Charles Horton Cooley

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
Norman Mailer

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
Britney Spears

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Marilyn vos Savant

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Dee Hock

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
Dee Hock

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
Gerry Adams

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Donatella Versace

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Aesop

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Jose Marti

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black Elk