Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. — Margaret Thatcher
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was… — Lisa Lutz
In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a… — Douglas Wilson
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. — Saint Augustine
Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark…that they might be saved from the floodwaters. Yet there was no evidence of rain and flood. His… — Thomas S. Monson
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse,… — John B. S. Haldane
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re… — Charlie Munger
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched… — Ella Leya
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But… — J. Robert Lennon
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who… — Walter Russell Mead
Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. — Angelina Jolie
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary. — Glenn Reynolds
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. — Luc de Clapiers
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? — Jean de la Bruyere
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. — Nellie Bly
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town,… — Alexander Hamilton
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a… — Johann Sebastian Bach

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