Ordinarily Quotes
114 Ordinarily quotes by 99 unique authors
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Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations…
— Tom Clancy
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In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much…
— Alexandra Patsavas
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
— Mary Oliver
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Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in…
— Milton H. Erickson
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By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.
— Stella Adler
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My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
— Catherine the Great
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I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing…
— Danny McBride
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how…
— Mitt Romney
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The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of…
— Julian Baggini
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
— Heinrich Heine
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Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of…
— Haven Kimmel
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
— H. L. Mencken
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds…
— M. Scott Peck
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I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's…
— Sarah Dunn
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Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been…
— Ally Carter
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You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
— Andy Warhol
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
— Aldo Leopold
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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