Used To Be Quotes

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.