Top 100 Is Usually Quotes
#1. The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.
Donal Daly
#2. Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#3. It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Bernard Holland
#4. My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Taylor Swift
#6. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#7. Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.
Oliver D. Crisp
#8. I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.
Julie Anne Long
#10. Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team
Johnny Giles
#11. In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.
Ronald Dunn
#12. Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.
Jack Campbell
#13. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
Steve Nash
#14. The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
Kate Zambreno
#15. The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
David Harvey
#17. A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
Mark Twain
#18. Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination
Ahmad Thomson
#19. most obvious application of functions is defining new vocabulary. Creating new words in regular, human-language prose is usually bad style. But in programming, it is indispensable.
Marijn Haverbeke
#20. Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Plautus
#21. I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
Ben Folds
#23. It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#24. Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice.
Ethan Hawke
#25. Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Aaron Sorkin
#26. The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Greg Ginn
#27. Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.
Robert Kennedy
#29. Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.
M.L. Wulff
#30. Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.
William Pinnock
#31. When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Marjorie Holmes
#33. skin rashes, conjunctivitis, fever, headache, malaise and pain in the joints. The symptoms will remain mild for the entire time which is usually between 3 to 7 days.
Stephen Nelson
#35. A person who's willing to meet you halfway is usually, conveniently, a poor judge of distance.
Jill Shalvis
#36. Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Jim Rohn
#37. People break all the time, no lie there and when that wretched break happens something is usually lost, left behind confused or some is hurt, a member of the family, a child, pure and innocent of the cruel world, dangerous adult men and women.
Abigail George
#38. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#39. The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George Eliot
#40. Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.
Dale Carnegie
#41. In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
Trey Parker
#42. Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.
Mark Salling
#43. Be wary of those with overpowering presence. It is usually a one-way street taking away your freedom of choice. Gravity is compelling particularly when it is a Black Hole.
R.N. Prasher
#44. Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.
Ted Alexandro
#45. When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
Therese Of Lisieux
#46. The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
Nassau William Senior
#47. The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
Thomas Carlyle
#48. The Eucharist is usually not considered an essential aspect of Christian worship by those concerned with church growth.
Paul W. Chilcote
#49. Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Bono
#51. Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
Harriet Martineau
#52. What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#53. The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
Gertrude Atherton
#54. An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.
Kenneth G. Mills
#55. Mental aerobics must be done prior to the exam. Work your mental muscle. If smart nurses fail this exam it is usually from mental fatigue.
Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio
#56. The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed. It is usually expressed in innuendos, passing remarks, moods, cartoons, hints, insinuations, unacknowledged assumptions, and jokes.
Dick Keyes
#57. The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.
Cung Le
#58. The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will
#59. General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.
Tucker Max
#60. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Suzanne Collins
#61. People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
J. Robert Lennon
#62. Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.
Ken Kesey
#63. When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn't want to accept it or make amends.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
Rachel Sklar
#65. A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
Russell Smith
#67. The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India.
Uday S. Kulkarni
#69. My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
Dennis Wolfberg
#70. When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
Elizabeth Joan Smith
#71. When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
Caroline Lawrence
#72. A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth Tynan
#73. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper and you have to listen very carefully to hear it.
Nicholas Sparks
#74. I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
Edmund Hillary
#75. My makeup is usually left over from the night before.
Kesha
#76. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.
Kenneth Patchen
#78. Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind of makes it right. Mostly for me, though, it's all about the acting -you don't have to get hair and makeup and the whole bit. You just can have fun with the acting.
Marg Helgenberger
#79. Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
Aleksandar Hemon
#80. Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Jeff Lindsay
#81. Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
Russell Conwell
#82. A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
Bruce Schneier
#85. An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
Cynthia Ozick
#86. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
Selena Haskins
#87. A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
Joseph Goebbels
#88. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.
Irvine Welsh
#89. Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
Jim Goad
#90. Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined
sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured
so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
Agatha Christie
#91. I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
Pope Francis
#92. Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until
Daniel Ganninger
#93. Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it's something bad, it's easier to blame someone, something.
Kate Griffin
#94. When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
Natalie Dormer
#95. Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The difference with digg is that equal play can be given to both sides of a story, whereas with a newspaper, a retraction or correction is usually buried.
Kevin Rose
#96. In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
Paul Theroux
#97. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.
Greg Egan
#98. If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
E.W. Howe
#99. I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
Dinesh D'Souza
#100. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
William Osler
