Usually Quotes
4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
— Agatha Christie
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
— Oscar Wilde
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Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face…
— Bell Hooks
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn…
— Anne Lamott
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Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a…
— Dave Barry
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're…
— Mark Haddon
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No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
— Terry Pratchett
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The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
— Norman Maclean
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To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she…
— Ismail Kadaré
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Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you…
— Andy Warhol
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Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes,…
— Seraphim Rose
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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself…
— James Frey
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Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
— Flannery O'Connor
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As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the…
— Stephen King
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Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's…
— Lauren Conrad
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He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian…
— Neil Gaiman
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The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must…
— Audre Lorde
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Well, usually when a person shakes their head,” said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
— Jeannette Walls
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually…
— H. L. Mencken
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