Usual Quotes

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

My usual self is a very unusual self.