Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. — Naomi Wolf
Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be… — Naomi Wolf
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. — Beatrice Wood
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of… — Thom Yorke
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but… — Ravi Zacharias
CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight. — Bill Watterson
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. — Dean Koontz
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. — Dorothy Parker
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s… — Ana Castillo
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts… — Albert Schweitzer
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning. — Alexandre Dumas
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge… — Pascal Mercier
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But… — Yann Martel
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't… — David Levithan
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... — Dodie Smith
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. — Martin Amis
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things,… — Daniel Handler
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. — Walt Whitman
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity — Jerzy Kosinski
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby

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