Customary Quotes

85 Customary quotes by 74 unique authors

Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner… — Howard Gardner
The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering". — Flann O'Brien
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Do not act following customary beliefs. — Miyamoto Musashi
Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary. — Eli Siegel
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to… — Akbar
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the… — Katharine Hepburn
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from… — Seneca the Younger
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that… — Giacomo Leopardi
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially… — Paul Berg
Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate. — Andrew Cuomo
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies. — Ahmed Chalabi
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to… — Ambrose Bierce
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman… — Ambrose Bierce
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. — Paul Gauguin
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed… — Rudolf Carnap

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