Used To Be Quotes

The future is not what it used to be.

I think Obama has redefined the Democratic Party. It used to be the party of acid, amnesty, and abortion, and now it's surrender, socialism, and subprime mortgages.

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.

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.