Usually Quotes
4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
— A. Lee Martinez
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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,…
— Salman Rushdie
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It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not…
— Sarah Dessen
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Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-
— Obert Skye
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If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’-…
— Andy Andrews
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I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
— David Foster Wallace
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If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.
— Judy Sheindlin
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Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs,…
— Luis Bunuel
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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely…
— Roberto Bolano
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they…
— Abbie Hoffman
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or…
— Francoise Sagan
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That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.
— Jonathan Stroud
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke.…
— Scott Adams
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To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
— Jeaniene Frost
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She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young…
— Charles Dickens
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There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become.…
— Gregory David Roberts
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of…
— Stephen Covey
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