Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 2960 authors
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Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
— John Stuart Mill
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Hmmm. See, in this world, Xirena, the Simi does what she wants and akri, he say, ‘Okay, Simi, whatever you want, Simi.’ Unless it involves…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of…
— Jack Kerouac
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Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between…
— Tom Robbins
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Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…
— Stephen King
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You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your…
— Judith McNaught
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To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they…
— Diane Setterfield
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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other…
— Terry Pratchett
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I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped over the line,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Seth laughed when he saw me. “Hey,†I said, poking him with my foot, “be nice.†“I think this is the first time I’ve ever…
— Richelle Mead
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Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.
— John Flanagan
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Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.
— Sarah Dessen
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The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen…
— Rick Riordan
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But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes…
— Garth Stein
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She…
— Oscar Wilde
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Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
— Nicholas Sparks
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