Usually Does Quotes

#1. Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.

Douglas Adams

#2. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Sharon Bolton

#3. Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Morley Safer

#4. I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

Kevin Shields

#5. Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Fred Saberhagen

#6. Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

Barbara Cartland

#7. We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.

Louis Navellier

#8. Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Tahir Shah

#9. Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

John C. Maxwell

#10. I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

Elizabeth Taylor

#11. It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

Gerard Houllier

#12. Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Amy Winehouse

#13. Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

Philip Yancey

#14. The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Jack Welch

#15. Unfortunately, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually does.

Truman Capote

#16. There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.

T. Harv Eker

#17. For when it starts feeling like a prison in there - and it usually does for most people - you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

John C. Lilly

#18. I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Ryan Gosling

#19. If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Natalie Imbruglia

#20. When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

James Coco

#21. Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

#22. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Douglas Rushkoff

#23. The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mortimer J. Adler

#24. Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

Murray Walker

#25. Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

Amit Bhatia

#26. The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

Tove Jansson

#27. A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

W.C. Fields

#28. We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#29. An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it.

Pema Chodron

#30. Of course flattery seldom works with discerning people. It is shallow, selfish and insincere. It ought to fail and it usually does. True, some people are so hungry, so thirsty, for appreciation that they will swallow anything, just as a starving man will eat grass and fishworms.

Dale Carnegie

#31. Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Jeff Cooper

#32. The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

#33. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#34. The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

Erwin W. Lutzer

#35. Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Mark Richt

#36. Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.

Martin Amis

#37. Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.

Sarah Noffke

#38. It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was. (Aztar)

Michelle Frost

#39. People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful, And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

Brad Warner

#40. A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

L. Ron Hubbard

#41. Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.

Larry McMurtry

#42. Now that I thought of it, perhaps whacking the burglar wasn't quite ... necessary.
It occurred to me that he said "Hi." I thought he did, anyway. He said hi. Do burglars usually
greet their victims? Hi. I'd like to rob your house. Does that work for you?

Kristan Higgins

#43. Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

Jim Elliot

#44. Secrets, however long they are kept, usually still manage to be brought to light. The best you can hope for is that you'll be in control of when a secret gets out, not if it does."

-Melody in CHIMERA-

Vaun Murphrey

#45. History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

Colm Toibin

#46. That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

Austin O'Malley

#47. Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.

Mike Pence

#48. The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

Charles Bukowski

#49. Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does.

Mark Murphy

#50. Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails ... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

Sid Grossman

#51. I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

Jeff Koons

#52. When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

John Steinbeck

#53. There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#54. How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?"
"Not well.

Devon Monk

#55. It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

#56. Does every word that comes out of your mouth have to do with sex?"
Logan smirked against Tate's mouth. "Usually, eighty/twenty, but with you, it seems more ninety-eight/two.

Ella Frank

#57. That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.

William Ritter

#58. I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

Jamie Lawson

#59. The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

Sam Altman

#60. No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Jane Austen

#61. There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and folly does all the talking. Fate is cruel, and human beings are pathetic.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#62. As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

Robert Breault

#63. Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

#64. There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.

Gayle Forman

#65. Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

William Magee

#66. What one person does, several people usually consider.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#67. The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Brenda Laurel

#68. Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually ...

Glen Duncan

#69. Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

Frederick Lenz

#70. Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.

Jim Rogers

#71. I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

Markus Zusak

#72. Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

Martin Fowler

#73. You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Pete Rose

#74. Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged.

Edmond Manning

#75. The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#76. Does it have a name? All of these fancy magical weapons usually have names."
Bishop glared at her. "Yeah. I like to call it Goldie."
"You're funny for an angel."
"Not really. I'm just inspired at the moment.

Michelle Rowen

#77. Everything will usually get worse before it gets better, but when it does get better ... remember all who put you down and all who helped you up. Forgive but never forget. Let Karma take care of all the rest.

Timothy Pina

#78. History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Bruce Catton

#79. In war what you don't dislike is not usually what the enemy does.

Winston S. Churchill

#80. [Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel ... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.

Edmund Morris

#81. Everything he does is for a reason. There's always
method to his madness, meaning behind every word, a point to his actions.
And it's usually never good.

J.M. Darhower

#82. It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

Mike Gordon

#83. To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

James E. Faust

#84. With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Oliver Sacks

#85. Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

Alan Vega

#86. For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#87. That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again.

Dana Gould

#88. One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Giovanni Falcone

#89. Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Jorge Luis Borges

#90. I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

Stellan Skarsgard

#91. God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.

Spencer W. Kimball

#92. When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#93. I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

Anna Kendrick

#94. Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Sean Bean

#95. Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

Tom Colicchio

#96. We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#97. Hmmm. See, in this world, Xirena, the Simi does what she wants and akri, he say, 'Okay, Simi, whatever you want, Simi.' Unless it involves eating people; then he usually says no, but that's the only time. Other than that, he do what the Simi says. See how that works? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#98. My mother doesn't usually lie, but she does have a habit of being vaguely evasive.

Susan Ee

#99. Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.

Miranda Lambert