Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 3077 authors
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But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
— David Farland
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I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that…
— Candace Cameron
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
— Andrew Eldritch
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Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship…
— Gene Sharp
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts,…
— Matthew Scully
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see…
— Matthew Scully
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It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is…
— Mary Parker Follett
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Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it…
— Ben Hecht
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Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain
— Michael Nesmith
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Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater…
— Ricky Williams
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he…
— Sydney J. Harris
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We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.
— Jan Eliasson
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
— Idries Shah
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When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you…
— Tom Platz
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I like to drop in on people who picked on me in high school or whatever, just out of the blue, and chat with them…
— Zach Braff
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Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be…
— Dean Ornish
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Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.
— Shakti Gawain
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Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
— Richard Stallman
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