Usual Quotes

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I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.