Top 100 You Used To Quotes
#1. Love me. Come back to me. Look at me like you used to. Touch me. Stop breaking me.
Ella Fields
#2. I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
Darren Shan
#3. When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
Jacki Weaver
#4. Are your ass cheeks touching my desk right now?" "You don't even insult me the normal way that you used to," she said. "I actually miss that." I pulled out a box of Clorox wipes.
Whitney G.
#5. You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.
Anne Carson
#6. Standing in a bookstore, near a street where you used to live, I found myself wishing you would walk through the door and we could meet for the first time, all over again.
Lang Leav
#7. You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina Aguilera
#8. Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.
Cesc Fabregas
#9. What have I done?" he asked, his voice raw. "You used to be such a sane, sensible lady."
"You took me on a journey into my own heart.
Shelly Thacker
#10. Boss, what, exactly, are we doing here?" "Feeling maudlin." "Oh. Good. How long are we planning on doing that?" "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" "What?" "Never mind.
Steven Brust
#11. You used to be brave once, sir, you used to say 'Everything is permitted,' sir, and now you've got so frightened!" Smerdyakov murmured, marveling.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. You can call me Seth, you know." She shrugged. "You used to." She used to do other things with him too. Like laugh and touch and make small talk. "Jack always called you Murphy. I got used to it.
Denise Hunter
#13. The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.
Auliq Ice
#14. You can't have a future until you accept the past. That doesn't mean you have to live the way you used to, but it does mean you can't deny what made you who you are. You made mistakes. Own them and move on.
Tammy L. Gray
#15. When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney
#16. Feel," said Driscoll, his hands and arms out loosely. "Remember how you used to run when you were a kid, and how the wind felt. Like feathers on your arms. You ran and thought any minute you'd fly, but you never quite did.
Ray Bradbury
#17. You used to be such a swell kid," Bobby stated briefly.
"Oh! And I ain't no more?" Helen little-girl'd.
J.D. Salinger
#18. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Dave Isay
#19. As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
John McEnroe
#20. But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
Joanne Harris
#21. You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
Arsenio Hall
#22. My aunt used to tell me that trust was like a plate. Once it was broken, it didn't matter how much glue you used to put it back together; it would never be the same. So here I am holding onto the broken fragments of our love - our marriage - trying not to cut myself with them. Some
Mia Asher
#23. ... You proved to value love and care
Over the riches of your world
Despite your haughtiness, so rare,
And cruelty and blood, so cold. ...
... And you have shown
Your love for him deserves to be
And we return you to your throne,
Vampire Queen you used to be. ...
Tatyana K. Varenko
#24. I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
Billy Joel
#25. When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.
Taylor Swift
#27. The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.
Katherine Catmull
#28. You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.
Joel Osteen
#29. So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
Toni Morrison
#30. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.
Jack Gantos
#32. Good luck explaining to God that you used to spank one of his heavenly beings."
Mom gave a startled laugh. "Sophie!"
"What? You did. I hope you like hot weather, Mom, that's all I'm saying.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes
Margaret Widdemer
#34. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
Orson Scott Card
#35. The person you want to be is more important than the person you used to be.
June Shrewsbury
#36. Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
Lynn Coady
#37. I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'
Natasha Leggero
#38. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle.
Sherry Thomas
#39. He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
Terry Pratchett
#40. You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
Clay Shirky
#41. It's okay Luce, it's not about you, or how you used to eat your boogers until you were seven
Jay McLean
#42. You may never remember the way you used to be with them, I have no doubt that you'll figure out a way that works with them one day. And when you do, when you figure everything out and decide with no regrets who you want to be, if you still want me, I'll be right here waiting for you.
Shelly Crane
#43. Mac, are you even listening?" Nick's voice sounded annoyed. "You used to be a lot more attentive."
"I used to be banging you too," I informed him absently. "I found your opinions about my love life a lot more interesting then.
S.E. Harmon
#44. You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet
George R. Stewart
#45. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox
#46. And you see his blue eyes, the blue eyes of all the family
whom you used to know, grow narrow and glisten,
his hand types out the details
and he wants them all
but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best.
Adrienne Rich
#47. You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave each other
They come to their senses and get selfish again.
Henry Rollins
#49. At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.
Charles Roven
#50. Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
Gregory Maguire
#51. I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.
Denis Leary
#52. There are legends. You used to be one." She says coolly, "I am legend.
Karen Marie Moning
#53. Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"
"Who Wouldn't?
Lissa Price
#54. Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!
Bryce Harper
#55. One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, God, what can You do through what I have?
Steven Furtick
#56. Don't you see? Your mortal heart shines like a candle flame and I, like one of those hapless black moths you used to leave as an offering, am helpless before its lure.
Robin LaFevers
#57. There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.
Les Paul
#58. What's this new shampoo you're wearing?"
"I stole it from Margot. It's juicy pear. Nice, right?"
"It's all right, I guess. But can you go back to the one you used to wear? The coconut one? I love the smell of that one." A dreamy look crosses his face, like evening fog settling over a city.
Jenny Han
#59. Just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him ... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
#61. There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it.
Karen Marie Moning
#62. You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that.
Stacey T. Hunt
#63. You've gotten rid of the person you used to be and the life you used to live, 10 and you've become a new person. This new person is continually renewed in knowledge to be like its Creator.
Anonymous
#64. On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
David Steinberg
#65. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.
David Levithan
#66. Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.
Richard Carlson
#67. You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#68. I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
Damien Hirst
#69. Fashion is about today and tomorrow.
Nobody cares how good you used to be
Paul Smith
#70. I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still have the hat.
Maxwell
#71. By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.
George Saunders
#72. Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
Chris Matakas
#73. You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
Andy Taylor
#75. You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.
Chuck Klosterman
#76. The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.
Sarah Manguso
#77. She still loved him, she would always love him, but it was the kind of love that was muted, safely seen through the rear-view window, like a place you used to call home but no longer visited. There would always be a wound there, but the healing had begun.
Melissa De La Cruz
#78. But you used to know a good thing when you saw it.
Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror.
What do you see? He looked at her.
Sometimes I don't see anything at all.
Ian Rankin
#79. I don't know what's happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you've gone all stabby and whatnot.
Devon Monk
#80. I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.
Benjamin Stone
#81. As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.
Michael Angarano
#82. KARKAT:REMEMBER PANTS TEREZI?? YOU USED TO LOVE PANTS!
Andrew Hussie
#83. When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.
Marie Helvin
#84. This your bomb? I'm here to return it to you. Up your ass.
Hey, speaking of which, you used to work with Iron Fist a lot, right?
How is that 'SPEAKING OF WHICH?!!- Power man & Deadpool
Daniel Way
#85. You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren't finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren't making you rich. But they were making the world rich
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. As far back as I can remember, whenever you used to look at me, your face would light up as if someone had lit a candle inside you.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#87. You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.
Barack Obama
#88. 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
#89. You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
Donald Glover
#90. As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
Tom Petty
#91. Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#92. I understand perfectly. He's fallen for your quiet, timid shell. For who you used to be. He has no idea what you're capable of. What you might do if you're pushed too far.
Tahereh Mafi
#93. The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be.
Seth Godin
#94. I wish," Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. "Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I'd be with you, and I'd be better.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#95. Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive ... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.
Jennifer Weiner
#96. Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.
Iain Thomas
#97. If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.
Frederick Lenz
#98. You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons, Lesley had said when I explained my reasoning. I'd been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I've learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.
Ben Aaronovitch
#99. When you finally let go of the person you used to be, you get to discover the person you are now and the person you want to become.
Regina Brett
#100. In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
Gabrielle Zevin
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