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Abused patience turns to fury.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Quote by Thomas Fuller about feelings, patience

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry...

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Quote by John Adams about society

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

Quote by Kenneth Peacock Tynan about actors, victims, bad luck, bad, work, world, good, good luck, people

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes...

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

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about woman, time, life

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I thought LSD was an abused drug in that it was never...

I thought LSD was an abused drug in that it was never meant for a person to drop and then go walking down the street.

Quote by Peter Fonda about man, people, thinking

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have...

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Quote by Salma Hayek about victims, woman

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about word, use, moral

Use, don't abuse.

Use, don't abuse.

Quote by Grace Jones about use

Computer masochism: When a computer takes all the abuse...

Computer masochism: When a computer takes all the abuse you think you can give it and continues working as it should.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The impossibility of slapping someone silly over the net is not recognized as potential weak point that requires careful consideration, but abused as if there was no tomorrow.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Somebody said to me this morning, To what do you attribute your longevity I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle...

Quote by Ozzy Osbourne about opinion, longevity, drugs, body, life

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