Used Quotes - Page 68

After awhile you could get used to anything.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

Get used to disappointment.

Get used to the bear behind you.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

I used to pray to recover you.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.