Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I… — Denis Johnson
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have… — Edward Dahlberg
This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one… — William James
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire… — Pema Chodron
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. — G. M. Trevelyan
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is… — Rajneesh
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive… — Karl A. Menninger
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way. — Helen Rowland
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will… — Bruce Lee
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,… — Bernadette Roberts
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the… — Ludwig Quidde
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about… — Timothy Geithner
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are… — William Makepeace Thackeray
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this… — Prince Philip
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. — William Allen White
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely… — John Perry Barlow
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I… — Bruce Chatwin
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens.… — Al Jardine
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject… — Diane Coyle
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to… — Michael Dirda
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the… — John Michael Greer
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams

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