Quotes About Used To Be

#1. I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this.

Colleen Hoover

#2. There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

Ricardo Semler

#3. The dog chewing on your ankle is pleasant compared to the one that used to be chewing on your head."
"Nice metaphor," I noted.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Marilyn Manson

#5. Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Keith Ellison

#6. The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Manolo Blahnik

#7. Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr

#8. 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.

Heidi Klum

#9. Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature. Be seperate. Do not be a social animal.

Lewis Thomas

#10. Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#11. I want amnesia! I want a fucking lobotomy. Could I please never think again? Look what's happened to us, us, Tania. Don't you remember how we used to be? Just look what's happened.

Paullina Simons

#12. I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

Molly Tarlov

#13. When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

Liu Xiang

#14. There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#15. It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

Caitlin Moran

#16. I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been.

Matthew Baker

#17. Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

Kendra Wilkinson

#19. We used to be Kings now we are beggars. We used to be leaders, now we are dogs We used to be fathers now we are sperm donors. Now we have nothing. No dignity, no honor and no self respect..

Jill Thrussell

#20. When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

Kim Clijsters

#21. I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

Bradford Cox

#22. There's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; I used to be one

Tammara Webber

#23. The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

Daniel Radcliffe

#24. Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!

Horace Walpole

#25. Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

Bruce Sterling

#26. Then the raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where his mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is please. Pity, not vengeance, sends my arrow flying into his skull. Peeta

Suzanne Collins

#27. 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)

Ernest Rutherford

#28. Can't believe they're running when they're not even late. This used to be a nice, lazy class.

Ken Akamatsu

#29. Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Stand Watie

#30. You don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

Wayne W. Dyer

#31. They said time changed people, and it was true. We weren't the same two people we used to be, but somehow we evolved as one. Even with hundreds of miles between us. But

Brittainy C. Cherry

#32. Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#33. We're all living in a parallel universe of what the world used to be.

Lauren DeStefano

#34. My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.

Alanis Morissette

#35. I used to be under the impression that if a role wasn't difficult, then there was nothing happening. Then a director said to me: 'Ken, you've got to realise, acting can be fun, too.'

Ken Stott

#36. Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

Simon Cowell

#37. I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

Caitlin Rose

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

Matt Taibbi

#39. Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

J. Vernon McGee

#40. It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach.

Michael Hofmann

#41. There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.

Douglas Coupland

#42. I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

Lisa Ling

#43. You're not her
Though I try to see you differently
I tow the line
You see, I'm searching for what used to be mine
And I saw your eyes
And I saw Alice staring back at me
So I will try to find another one who suited me as well as her

Ed Sheeran

#44. I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

Stacy London

#45. I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#46. I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Mike Figgis

#47. When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be.

Peter S. Beagle

#48. 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.

Oskar Kokoschka

#49. It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

Patrick Geddes

#50. We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Lou Holtz

#51. They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Arthur Boyd

#52. It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Colin Firth

#53. I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Ram Dass

#54. I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Ringo Starr

#55. Don't let anyone tell you things aren't better than they used to be.

Anita Diamant

#56. It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

Joseph O'Neill

#57. I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

Ian Anthony Dale

#58. Oh, I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.

Elvis Costello

#59. We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.

Orhan Pamuk

#60. I used to be more refined but at my age, you start to realize all that politeness doesn't get you very far. Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people along the way.

Christopher Golden

#61. It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

Alex Lifeson

#62. If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

#63. I've been walking around with a hollow chasm in my chest where my heart used to be.
But that gaping hole is full again. My heart is back, because Jamie is here.
And he fucking loves me.

Sarina Bowen

#64. I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Susan Faludi

#65. If we constantly rewrite history to fit how we see things now, we forget how things used to be and, equally important to future scholars, how we used to see them.

Anne Summers

#66. They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had taken my hand or breathed in my ear or told me he loved me,and the emptiness that used to be Chris.

Robin Wasserman

#67. Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school.

Margaret Atwood

#68. We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

Evan Osnos

#69. Could it be that even his ideas about vice had changed? Vice used to be a harmless word. You were entitled to your private vice, so long as it hurt no one and pleased a few.

Bhabani Bhattacharya

#70. A friend who used to be my customer told me one day: "I promise I am going to help you to be relocated." He's a realtor and after he bought two buildings in the business district in Boston, he said: "Are you ready for your next place?" I could not believe it.

Julie King

#71. I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

Garrett Hedlund

#72. I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

Rachael Ray

#73. A part of him wanted to cram his reality down her throat, forcing her to accept him, with no excuses offered. A wiser part of him, the man he'd used to be, warned against such ruthlessness.

Karen Marie Moning

#74. Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

Jim Kaat

#75. Women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Gloria Steinem

#76. I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.

Billie Letts

#77. I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. So once it got to there and I also knew more about the business and I thought, "I can't do this anymore."

Ed O'Neill

#78. Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#79. Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#80. I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like ... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

Kajol

#81. My full name used to be weird enough that nobody would ever call me it. Then that show had to become popular. Damn that show. It ruined a horrible name.

Larry Gent

#82. I'm not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can't believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn't like that. God is better than that, better than us.

Marshall Thornton

#83. That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#84. It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Jerry West

#86. I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

Sherri Shepherd

#87. The older I get, the better I used to be.

R.A. Long

#88. I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.

Zack Wamp

#89. I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

Mark Valley

#90. She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Jodi Picoult

#91. I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

Pete Sampras

#92. If you could use that rewind button, would you? turn things back the way they used to be?

Winna Efendi

#93. 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.

Jim Gaffigan

#94. I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

Drew Magary

#95. My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there.

Francisco Costa

#96. For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

Esperanza Spalding

#97. My heroes used to be cowboys.

David Foreman

#98. I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#99. I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

Samantha Shannon

#100. I know you're not like that anymore, Kane. While I don't approve of the person you used to be, I can't change the past. Lord knows I would if I could. The only thing to do is move forward, and if you want, I would love for you to do so with me.

Amanda Stone