Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

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
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

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