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What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Money should be used to help others.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

My homies used to call me ' ions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to . ' i,' my friends used to call me.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

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.

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.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.