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“I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.”

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”

Knows Believe I Can Used Can Do Prayer Answers Praying Guides Hungry I Pray Guide Me Prayer Changes Things

Author:Mother Teresa

“I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.”

Used Praying Athlete Great Athlete

Author:Lou Holtz

“I used to pray to recover you.”

Used Praying

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.' My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night. 'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.”

Fear Lies Abuse Denial Hiding Secrets Domestic Violence Siblings Bruises Hidden Society Denial Physical Abuse Threats Screaming Abusive Family Societal Denial Foster Home

Author:Emily Andrews

Source: The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

“I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.”

Whole Used Certain Lists Cards Cash Accountants Receipts

Author:Lemar

“I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.”

Singing Rap

Author:D-Pryde

“I used to pretend a lot. I'm very good at it,”

Poetry Poem Pretending

Author:Ada Limon

Source: Bright Dead Things

“I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.”

Way Real Used Passing Passings My Way Passing Through Real Ones My Sister's Keeper

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball”

Used Balls Tennis Toms Attacking Jerry

Author:Monica Seles

“I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.”

Used Force Television Pride Actresses Feds Opera Soap Anorexia Sentimentality Upstairs Soap Operas Impervious

Author:S. J. Perelman

“I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.”

Firsts Lasts Used Night Effort Morning Pride Office Outcomes

Author:Maynard Webb

“I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.”

Facts Running Used House Pride

Author:Michael Learned

“I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I did a Bounty Killer, Lexxus, Spragga Benz, Sizzla, a whole lot of artist.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Used Artist Produce Years Ago Killers Bounty Benz

Author:Lady Saw

“I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.”

Want Shows Used Night Guy Talking Opposites Yelling Psych Complete Opposites

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.”

Used Waiting Wind

Author:Joe Cronin

“I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.”

Ifs Used Doors Mets Directors Casting Resumes Stella Casting Directors Adler

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.”

Knows Way Writing Kind Together Used Interesting Pieces Right Now Boring Strings Vocal Most Interesting Interesting Ways Afterthought

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.”

Years Kids America Used Fighting Found Rivers Hypocrisy Mississippi

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“I used to quite fancy Russell Brand, but I'm not sure if it's just because he's funny. He's definitely got something and I can't just switch all that off because of one stupid moment. I fancy Barack Obama too, which is a wrong crush, isn't it? He's a married man, and he's quite old, but he looks young, so he's fair game.”

Ifs Men Looks I Can Moments Young Used Games Stupid Married Fairs Brands Barack Not Sure Fancy Crush Married Man Fair Game

Author:Konnie Huq

“I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.”

Used Race Track Lakes Dirt Crystals Illinois Ymca

Author:Matt Skiba

“I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.”

People Kids Used Talent Rap Keep Going Impressed

Author:Danny Brown

“I used to read comics when I was a kid.”

Kids Used

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.”

Book Used Fronts Golf Magazines

Author:Trent Dilfer

“I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.”

Thinking Mind Wells Littles Book Helping Used Night Reading Games Bits Term Little Bit Focused Help Me Book Reading

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.”

Men Used Teach Five Fellows Chapters Fellow Man Psalms

Author:Billy Graham

“I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.”

People Thinking Should Kind Important Kids Used Humanity Stuff Understanding Teach Fire Building Depth Architecture Fuel

Author:Frank Gehry

“I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.”

Used Fiction Novel

Author:David Quammen

“I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover”

Love Used Lovers Myth

Author:Rumi

“I used to read the newspaper blindfolded. I found it made me more informed as a thinker. Now I spend my time doing other things blindfolded, like teaching Pekin ducks how to fly at The Amelia Earhart School of Aviation.”

Reading News Ducks Read Duck Duck Quote Duck Quotes Newspaper

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.”

Ideas Used My Own Records My Friends Studios Rapper Back When

Author:Don Cheadle

“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”

Reason Use Wanted Faces Used Simple Talking Week New York Drug Married Stones Decided Addiction Boxes Monsters Rational Insult Drs Flew Medication Drug Use

Author:Carrie Fisher

Source: Wishful Drinking

“I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.”

Thinking World Different Illness Radical Pretending Multiplicity Framed

Author:Elad Lassry

“I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?”

Ifs Ends Self Body Beautiful Used Mother Crazy Discipline Daughter Saved What If My Daughter Smarter Self Discipline Body Image Theoretical Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.”

Used Fortune Ill Mary Typhoid

Author:Nigella Lawson

“I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"”

People Mean Littles Care Past Used House Ordinary Let Me Jersey Salesman New Jersey Princeton

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I used to repeat a false and destructive mantra... 'No good deed goes unpunished.' In truth, a good deed is a test that has been passed. And like any good teacher, the Creator makes the tests more difficult after each lesson is learned. ALL good deeds are rewarded with growth, and growth is difficult.”

Spirit Belief Prayer Inspiring Compassion Kindness Trust Spiritual Quotes Forgiveness Meaning

Author:Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

“I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them.”

People Thinking Critics

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!”

Writing Wells Stories Used Bits Information Decided Impression Checks Flight

Author:Marina Warner

“I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out the window and just think about how much I wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do it, but I think I was always in the wrong place. I didn't really have any opportunities. So I left LA four years ago and I really just left my old life behind. I threw everything into pursuing music.”

Thinking School Opportunity Window Bus Listening To Music Just Listen School Bus

Author:ZZ Ward

“I used to roll my eyes at looking back at the past. Digging into my childhood for answers about my present patterns, blaming my parents or others for how I turned out - it seemed like a convenient rationalization, a bunch of psychobabble meant to excuse me from responsibility. But I've learned it's not at all about blaming. It's being willing to look at it all with clear eyes - to have compassion for the reasons people fell short but also to admit that they did. This was the hardest part: to admit that parts of my childhood were not okay. To stop protecting people. It is hard to type this even now, because I can hear voices telling me to stop playing the victim, that it wasn't all that bad. But I know that acknowledging the truth is actually an act of maturity and autonomy - it is, ironically, how we relieve ourselves from the victim role. Because once we are operating in reality, we can begin to take responsibility for what's ours, and stop taking responsibility for what never was. Denying works for only so long; eventually that shit will come out, and it will be ugly.”

Past Childhood Denial

Author:Laura McKowen

Source: We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.”

Stills Moving Used Hip Hop Rap

Author:Rakim

“I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.”

Used Break Stupid Healthy Bones Ribs Stupid Things Healthy Fear

Author:Michael Gira

“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.”

People Ifs Running Used Asks Parent Streets New York Fake If I Could Bus Weekend Slips Running Away Permission Midnight Baltimore Sorority Greyhounds Greyhound Bus

Author:John Waters

“I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.”

Running School Used Perfect Preparation

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him--the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire. Then I awoke. Then I recalled where I was, and how situated. Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.”

Love Passion Dreams

Author:Charlotte Brontë

Source: Jane Eyre

“I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.”

Used Lost One Day Boxes Rejection Slips Autographs Auctions

Author:James Lee Burke

“I used to say I and Me Now it's Us, now it's We”

Used

Author:Michael Jackson

“I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.”

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