Used To Be Quotes (page 19)

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• eyes
• serious
• yours

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have. Nicholas Sparks

• world
• saying
• uses

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it. Johnny Depp

• world
• worldly
• using

The world is as it used to be: Thomas Hardy

• reality
• using
• use to be

Reality isn't what it used to be. Dean Koontz

• personality
• choices
• personal

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. H. G. Wells

• walking
• make
• uses

When you walk, you make an echo where they used to be. Peter S. Beagle

• new
• saying
• old

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104. Craig Ferguson

• now
• disgusting
• uses

I used to be disgusted. Now, I'm just amused... Elvis Costello

• good
• people
• bad

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers. Marco Polo

• giving
• good
• help

Stop, stop, stop!' he cried; "stop talking a minute, for I see half. Will God give me strength? Will my brain make the one jump and see all? Heaven help me! I used to be fairly good at thinking. . . Will my head split - or will it see? I see half - I only see half. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• being a man
• struggle
• new

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages. Leo Tolstoy

• time
• moving
• stupid

You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it’s been relocated miles away. Chuck Palahniuk

• kindness
• engagement
• girls

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• wellness
• personality
• thinking

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries? Bill Mumy

• philosophy
• religious
• buddhism

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. Thurston Moore