Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 2960 authors
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Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound…
— Lauren Oliver
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This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and…
— Orson Scott Card
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Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
— Darynda Jones
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Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in…
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
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There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."…
— Rick Riordan
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In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't…
— Neil Strauss
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Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and…
— Mitch Albom
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I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process…
— Karen Chance
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I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
— Lisa Kleypas
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But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they…
— Darren Shan
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Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she…
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all…
— Mary Balogh
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The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but…
— Chuck Klosterman
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The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?â€. There is a great answer to that…
— Kate Bornstein
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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
— Emily Giffin
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It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find…
— Albert Camus
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How can you read and talk at the same time?†I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly…
— John Green
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