Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 3077 authors
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
— Victor Borge
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
— Oscar Wilde
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a…
— Ken Robinson
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I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics…
— David Deutsch
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I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm…
— Gina Gershon
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm…
— Uri Geller
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I don't usually set personal goals.
— Tim Duncan
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We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.
— Bob Cousy
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Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't…
— Cate Blanchett
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I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus,…
— Marc Maron
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It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
— George Madison Adams
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