Top 1200 Being Used Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There was no roof where we trained, so it used to get very hot during the day and the mud used to feel very cold during the evening.

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

I have really thick bushy eyebrows that I used to pluck into a thin line which used to really annoy my Mum!

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.

I came out of a building and this woman stopped me, like, 'You're Miss Universe!' And she was a New Yorker! I'm not used to New Yorkers being fans, because they're so blase about it, you know.

My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films.

My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.

There's definitely some stuff that I wear or used to wear, or I used to do in the ring, that I look back, and I'm like, 'Oh, what was I thinking?'

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

I love little kids, I hate little kids being used by cynical politicians, though.

When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that was going on out loud. To my phone! I don't do that anymore!

I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?

All my childhood memories are from Lucknow. My entire maternal side lives here, so every vacation, we used to come here by Shatabdi and spend days here visiting monuments, savouring delicacies, and being with family. For me, it's like second home.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

I think videos are really hard. I'm yet to be happy with a video. It's very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I'm going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it's one thing to say that and another to actually do it.

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.

My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I'm used to my hearing in the same way that I'm used to the size of my hands.

On Diwali, my parents, friends, cousins - everyone used to assemble at our home, where we used to have a Diwali mela.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it's become extremely tough being a manager these days.

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

I like being girly. I used to wear jeans all the time and tracksuit bottoms but then I was like, really all I want to be like is Marilyn Monroe so why am I wearing these?

I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.

My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far!

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it. But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a very special way. It came to be used with the primary objective or intent of self-expansion. In this system, past accumulations were 'capital' only to the extend they were used to accumulate more of the same.

I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort of an old lady with a camera.

I'm just used to playing on the ball or off the ball. At Michigan we did a lot of both so for me, it's just a matter of being productive when I'm on the court.

I used to brush aside when people used to say 'Poonam, you're different.' It was much later that I realised, I was different.