Usual Quotes

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.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Just charge me with the usual.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.