Usually Quotes
4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually…
— Juliana Hatfield
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If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out…
— Linda Bradford Raschke
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If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
— Richard E. Grant
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Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or…
— Louis L'Amour
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Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Programming is usually taught by examples.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
— Andy Rooney
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It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
— Edmund Hillary
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
— Helen Rowland
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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,…
— Agatha Christie
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
— Joseph Campbell
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for…
— Blaise Pascal
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
— Raymond Chandler
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Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to…
— Andy Warhol
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
— Kenneth Tynan
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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
— Iris Murdoch
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
— Steve Miller
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In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
— John Stuart Mill
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