Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 2960 authors
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You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is…
— Edward de Bono
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
— Ann Brashares
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The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.
— Tove Jansson
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There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny.…
— Stephen King
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Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding.…
— Deb Caletti
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You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually…
— Gaelen Foley
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
— George Eliot
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Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?†I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in…
— Cassandra Clare
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Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
— Jodi Picoult
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So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its…
— Derek Landy
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The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
— Eric Hoffer
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Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.
— Susane Colasanti
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There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the…
— Margo Lanagan
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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
— Oscar Wilde
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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,…
— Albert Camus
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
— Blaise Pascal
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
— Tim Ferriss
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