Used To Be Quotes

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.

I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.