Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system.… — Francine Busby Copy Share Image
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin'… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
