Used To Be Quotes
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.
I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.
If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.
I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular
I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.
Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
Your state of consciousness today is not the same as it used to be or as it will be in two weeks or a couple of years from now.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.
Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.
The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.
Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.
Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.
I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.
What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.
I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.
Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
