Usual Quotes

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. (Margaret Atwood)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. View quote
Jef Raskin
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. View quote
John Lennon
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Henry James
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
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. View quote
John Dryden
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette. (Isaac Asimov)
All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. View quote
John Perry Barlow
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. View quote
Richard Adams
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. View quote
Naomi Wolf
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. View quote
Beatrice Wood
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. View quote
David Ginola
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. (Maria Monk)
But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is. View quote
Audrey Niffenegger
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. View quote
William James
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. View quote
Paul Krugman
A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. View quote
Thomas Hardy