Usually Quotes
4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my…
— Janet Evanovich
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I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all…
— Peter David
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If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big…
— Sean Covey
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A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
— Eric Schlosser
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
— George S. Patton
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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
— Suzanne Collins
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Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because…
— Jim Butcher
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You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is…
— Edward de Bono
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
— Ann Brashares
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The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.
— Tove Jansson
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There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny.…
— Stephen King
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Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding.…
— Deb Caletti
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You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually…
— Gaelen Foley
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If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
— George Eliot
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Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in…
— Cassandra Clare
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Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
— Jodi Picoult
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So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its…
— Derek Landy
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The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
— Eric Hoffer
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Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.
— Susane Colasanti
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There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the…
— Margo Lanagan
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