Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

She lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: “He doesn’t make enough time for me. He isn’t as romantic as he used to be.Copyright © by Sherry Argov

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

So I can say I used to have a waist.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian) Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

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.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.