Usual Quotes

623 quotes by 519 authors

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. — Charles Spurgeon
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting… — Katherine Anne Porter
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. — Phyllis McGinley
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. — George Bernard Shaw
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom… — Alan Dershowitz
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and… — Thomas Merton
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization… — Erwin Schrodinger
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual… — Albert Einstein
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of… — Ann Widdecombe
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Summer has set in with its usual severity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It… — Mark Twain
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to… — William Herschel
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak;… — Unknown Author
But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on… — Gene Spafford
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field… — Robert Koch

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