1.
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
Robert Mugabe
What is the issue? We now have aircraft which can transport them back faster than the vessels employed by their forebears.
2.
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
Mother Teresa
I formerly thought that supplication could alter circumstances, but now I understand that prayer alters us, and we adjust things.
3.
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.
T. D. Jakes
'You cannot exist in two different states concurrently.'
4.
Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
Bhagat Singh
'Life is lived solo, but shoulders are only employed for laying to rest.'
5.
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
Oswald Chambers
6.
He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."
Harry S. Truman
He was unaccustomed to being censured, and he never fully comprehended that this is what politics entails. He was accustomed to receiving flattery.
7.
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you
Frederic Chopin
I express to my piano the emotions I once shared with you.
8.
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
Ian Curtis
I formerly toiled in a manufacturing plant and I was quite content because I could daydream endlessly.
9.
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
Chuck Berry
It used to be labeled as boogie-woogie, it used to be tagged blues, used to be recognized as rhythm and blues...Nowadays it's known as rock.
10.
There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.
Theodore Kaczynski
'Aggression in itself is not inherently immoral. The morality of a particular act of violence hinges upon its implementation and the motives for employing it.'
11.
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Eartha Kitt
12.
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
Christopher Hitchens
14.
Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
John Wycliffe
15.
You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.
Leon Brown
16.
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
Robert Orben
17.
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Marcus Garvey
18.
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
19.
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
David Lehman
20.
You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
Adam Garcia
21.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
Aleksandar Hemon
22.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Gene Siskel
23.
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
Jay McShann
24.
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
Dai Vernon
25.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
Jackson Browne
26.
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires
Todd Barry
27.
Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
Woody Guthrie
28.
I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
John Wooden
29.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
30.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
George Bernard Shaw
31.
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
Dominic Monaghan
32.
Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.
George Muller
33.
God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.
Andy Mineo
34.
I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.
Rose Byrne
35.
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
Gracie Allen
36.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Arundhati Roy
37.
I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.
Niall Horan
39.
When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.
Chael Sonnen
40.
The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.
Jack LaLanne
41.
My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.
Massad Ayoob
42.
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.
Paul Dirac
43.
I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.
Slash
44.
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
Mark Twain
45.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
John Dryden
46.
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
Mikhail Bakhtin
47.
Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.
Frantz Fanon
48.
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
49.
The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John Green