Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. — Clara Barton
One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by… — Elisabeth Elliot
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to… — William Makepeace Thackeray
If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The… — Terence McKenna
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of… — Nancy Spero
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached,… — Gangaji
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game — Murray Gell-Mann
Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and… — Paul Rice
Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any… — L. Ron Hubbard
Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying… — Nicole Krauss
The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books –… — James Lovelock
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed… — Walker Percy
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power… — Darrell Issa
Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain… — Robert Rubin
There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual. — Ottmar Edenhofer
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your… — E T A Hoffmann
Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to… — Samuel Palmer
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all… — Pete du Pont
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of… — Sarah Zettel
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if… — Maurice Jarre
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside… — Bertrand Piccard
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I… — Veronica Lake
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence… — Thomas Boswell
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of… — Robert Henri
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses. — Billy Bragg

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