Top 46 Not The Man I Used To Be Quotes
#2. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...
Allen Tate
#3. Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
Pope John Paul II
#4. I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty."
"Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,
Raymond E. Feist
#5. I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.
David Plouffe
#6. Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women.
Anand Neelakantan
#7. We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.
Emma Forrest
#8. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.
Auberon Herbert
#9. A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man ...
Henri Matisse
#10. Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.
Stephen Richards
#11. When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
Louis J. Mordell
#12. I'm well aware that you're a man used to getting your way. But this time, I'm afraid you're destined for disappointment.
Maya Banks
#13. I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
Alan Alda
#14. I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
Rachel Platten
#15. Don't hide from me." He burrowed his fingers into her hair and used it to gently tug her head back to face him. "You don't ever get to hide from me. I'm the man who loves you.
Renee Rose
#16. Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once you get used to it, it's not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.
Willie Robertson
#18. I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that ... but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.
John Wayne
#19. look at him like I used to look at Bobby. Like you want to rip his clothes off and take a ride on the Cooper train." That was absurd. He may be big, but Cooper was a man not a locomotive. Though he did have a nice caboose.
Terri Osburn
#20. It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
William Faulkner
#21. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.
Heidi Heilig
#22. I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be."
"I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.
Ann Simko
#24. Well, I got my hand. What more does a man need?"
"Yes, and you've used that hand three-thousand times since you took over the ship."
[David to Miranda]
Mark Alders
#25. My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Richard Elman
#26. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.
Wendell Berry
#27. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
W.C. Fields
#28. I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
Confucius
#29. Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
John Steinbeck
#30. [She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.
Louis De Bernieres
#31. The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Xunzi
#32. I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
Seamus Dever
#33. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.
Derek Landy
#34. Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan's lack of heat tolerance. "I didn't say anything." "Whatever, man," Ronan replied. "I know that face. You were born in hell, you're used to it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.
Michael Redhill
#36. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.
Charles C. Ryrie
#37. There was a man called Chaumette, scruffy and sharp-featured. He hated the aristocrats and he also hated prostitutes, and the two things used to get quite confused in his mind.
Hilary Mantel
#38. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
Amit Kalantri
#39. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#40. Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Warren Farrell
#41. You can't imagine the excuses a woman will invent for a man's not telling her that he loves her - pitiable arguments that she would see through at a glance if any other woman used them!
Edith Wharton
#42. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
#43. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
Eugenio Montale
#45. The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire
#46. You are not the man you used to be. You are stronger and wiser and freer than you have ever been. And now you have come to the crossroads of your destiny. It's time for you to choose.
Aaron Ehasz
