Quotes about Usual

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. Votes: 6

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Votes: 6

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Votes: 6

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Votes: 4

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. Votes: 4

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. Votes: 4

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. Votes: 4

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. Votes: 4

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Votes: 4

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams. Votes: 4

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. Votes: 4

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments. Votes: 4

Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down. Votes: 4

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. Votes: 4

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare. Votes: 4

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. Votes: 4

The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! Votes: 3

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again. Votes: 3

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you. Votes: 3

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either. Votes: 3

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Votes: 2

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for. Votes: 2

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' Votes: 2

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. Votes: 2

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Votes: 2

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull. Votes: 2

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. Votes: 2

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Votes: 2

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. Votes: 2

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. Votes: 2

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' Votes: 2

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. Votes: 2

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. Votes: 2

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Votes: 2

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Votes: 2

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. Votes: 2

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm. Votes: 2

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them. Votes: 2

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars. Votes: 2

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president. Votes: 2

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.' Votes: 2

Just charge me with the usual. Votes: 0

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good. Votes: 0

History, sir, will tell lies as usual. Votes: 0

The unusual wins out over the usual. Votes: 0

War is the usual condition of Europe. Votes: 0

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight. Votes: 0

My usual self is a very unusual self. Votes: 0

Summer has set in with its usual severity. Votes: 0

Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me. Votes: 0

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. Votes: 0

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. Votes: 0

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. Votes: 0

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual. Votes: 0

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity. Votes: 0

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight. Votes: 0

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.... Votes: 0

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. Votes: 0

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them. Votes: 0

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. Votes: 0

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. Votes: 0

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. Votes: 0

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... Votes: 0

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret. Votes: 0

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. Votes: 0

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. Votes: 0

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding. Votes: 0

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all. Votes: 0

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. Votes: 0

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Votes: 0

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself. Votes: 0

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time. Votes: 0

It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that's all Percy had. Votes: 0

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way. Votes: 0

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain Votes: 0

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. Votes: 0

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares. Votes: 0

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on. Votes: 0

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. Votes: 0

CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three. Votes: 0

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business. Votes: 0

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. Votes: 0

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. Votes: 0

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual Votes: 0

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual Votes: 0

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. Votes: 0

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city. Votes: 0

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Votes: 0

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. Votes: 0

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. Votes: 0

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. Votes: 0

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. Votes: 0

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. Votes: 0

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. Votes: 0

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Votes: 0

The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along. Votes: 0

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER. Votes: 0

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes Votes: 0

The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful. Votes: 0

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. Votes: 0

Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head. Votes: 0

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. Votes: 0

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. Votes: 0

Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense. Votes: 0

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Votes: 0

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough. Votes: 0

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. Votes: 0

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. Votes: 0

But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is. Votes: 0

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. Votes: 0

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup." Votes: 0

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual. Votes: 0

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. Votes: 0

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. Votes: 0

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. Votes: 0

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. Votes: 0

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either! Votes: 0

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time. Votes: 0

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. Votes: 0

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. Votes: 0

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. Votes: 0

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere. Votes: 0

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions. Votes: 0

Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual It was a weak pass okay Votes: 0

Britain is relying on you, Bob, so try not to make your usual hash of things. Votes: 0

The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. Votes: 0

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. Votes: 0

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. Votes: 0

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. Votes: 0

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. Votes: 0

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems Votes: 0

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity Votes: 0

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. Votes: 0

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray. Votes: 0

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want. Votes: 0

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. Votes: 0

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird. Votes: 0

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game Votes: 0

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need. Votes: 0

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm. Votes: 0

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. Votes: 0

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. Votes: 0

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. Votes: 0

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining. Votes: 0

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. Votes: 0

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man. Votes: 0

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he? Votes: 0

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. Votes: 0

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..." Votes: 0

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. Votes: 0

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth. Votes: 0

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. Votes: 0

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become. Votes: 0

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go Votes: 0

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses. Votes: 0

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape Votes: 0

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. Votes: 0

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. Votes: 0

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud. Votes: 0

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. Votes: 0

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized. Votes: 0

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be. Votes: 0

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. Votes: 0

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. Votes: 0

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way. Votes: 0

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things. Votes: 0

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual. Votes: 0

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement. Votes: 0

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! Votes: 0

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual. Votes: 0

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. Votes: 0

I'll probably be wearing something fun and sexy as usual, but I can't say it will be the 'Catsuit.' Votes: 0

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone. Votes: 0

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice. Votes: 0

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog. Votes: 0

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures. Votes: 0

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. Votes: 0

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. Votes: 0

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. Votes: 0

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. Votes: 0

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. Votes: 0

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. Votes: 0

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. Votes: 0

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? Votes: 0

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. Votes: 0

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. Votes: 0

I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people who don't agree with me. Votes: 0

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. Votes: 0

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. Votes: 0

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. Votes: 0

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. Votes: 0

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. Votes: 0

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul. Votes: 0

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual. Votes: 0

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. Votes: 0

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual. Votes: 0

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. Votes: 0

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? Votes: 0

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake. Votes: 0

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June. Votes: 0

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. Votes: 0

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. Votes: 0

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. Votes: 0

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. Votes: 0

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. Votes: 0

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual. Votes: 0

Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia. Votes: 0

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. Votes: 0

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to. Votes: 0

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath. Votes: 0

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution. Votes: 0

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. Votes: 0

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted. Votes: 0

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary. Votes: 0

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED. Votes: 0

Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal. Votes: 0

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation. Votes: 0

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous. Votes: 0

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. Votes: 0

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. Votes: 0

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself. Votes: 0

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. Votes: 0

What do you want a clock for?" "To find out what time it is," I said. "I think that's the usual purpose. Votes: 0

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that. Votes: 0

Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells. Votes: 0

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. Votes: 0

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris Votes: 0

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. Votes: 0

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. Votes: 0

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. Votes: 0

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country. Votes: 0

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug. Votes: 0

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. Votes: 0

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish. Votes: 0

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional? Votes: 0

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now. Votes: 0

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments. Votes: 0

What's going on?" he demanded. "The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family. Votes: 0

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings. Votes: 0

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam. Votes: 0

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer. Votes: 0

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are. Votes: 0

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down. Votes: 0

How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me. Votes: 0

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful. Votes: 0

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace. Votes: 0

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'. Votes: 0

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response Votes: 0

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. Votes: 0

World War III would become a great possibility, but such a scenario is quite possible under any new US administration... To answer your question: business as usual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939. Votes: 0

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual. Votes: 0

Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level. Votes: 0

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning. Votes: 0

When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual. Votes: 0

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. Votes: 0

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour. Votes: 0

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as "˜Harshaw's Law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. Votes: 0

It's just me throwing myself at you,romance as usual, us times us,not lust but moxibustion,a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation. Votes: 0

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York. Votes: 0

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it. Votes: 0

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc. Votes: 0

Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him. Votes: 0

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth. Votes: 0

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway. Votes: 0

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual." Votes: 0

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else. Votes: 0

As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration. Votes: 0

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. Votes: 0

Sam's probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self," Caine said. "I can't let that boy save the world all alone. I'd never live it down. Votes: 0

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that. Votes: 0

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. Votes: 0

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything. Votes: 0

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear. Votes: 0

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them. Votes: 0

Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time. Votes: 0

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner. Votes: 0

When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. Votes: 0

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples. Votes: 0

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar. Votes: 0

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual. Votes: 0

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts. Votes: 0

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual. Votes: 0

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) Votes: 0

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. Votes: 0

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action Votes: 0

Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities. Votes: 0

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world. Votes: 0

Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...." Votes: 0

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images. Votes: 0

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong. Votes: 0

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him. Votes: 0

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves. Votes: 0

After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record. Votes: 0

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. Votes: 0

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works. Votes: 0

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example. Votes: 0

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets. Votes: 0

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual. Votes: 0

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. Votes: 0

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. Votes: 0

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth. Votes: 0

One can remain alive long 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. Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy. Votes: 0

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?" Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy. Votes: 0

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries]. Votes: 0

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers. Votes: 0

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... Votes: 0

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt. Votes: 0

What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are. Votes: 0

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow. Votes: 0

The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary. Votes: 0

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly. Votes: 0

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there...These are usual things. Votes: 0

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else. Votes: 0

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery. Votes: 0

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late. Votes: 0

Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain? Votes: 0

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. Votes: 0

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Votes: 0

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view Votes: 0

I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual. Votes: 0

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. Votes: 0

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual. Votes: 0

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff. Votes: 0

"¦Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. Votes: 0

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward! Votes: 0

My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality. Votes: 0

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries. Votes: 0

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. Votes: 0

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership." Votes: 0

I've lived all over the world, but Harlem is very special to me, and when I decided to open a restaurant near my home, I didn't want it to be business as usual. Votes: 0

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Votes: 0

Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers. Votes: 0

Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us. Votes: 0

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing. Votes: 0

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too. Votes: 0

To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society. Votes: 0

Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors. Votes: 0

In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: Just charge me with the usual. Votes: 0

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Votes: 0

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger. Votes: 0

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? Votes: 0

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. Votes: 0

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual Votes: 0

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens. Votes: 0

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance. Votes: 0

While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy Votes: 0

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you. Votes: 0

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. Votes: 0

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else. Votes: 0

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. Votes: 0

Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question. Votes: 0

Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit. Votes: 0