Top 100 Usually Means Quotes

#1. Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Joseph Campbell

Usually Means Quotes #3167
#2. Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

Sherry Turkle

Usually Means Quotes #5315
#3. When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Daniel Clowes

Usually Means Quotes #27296
#4. Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

Bobby Unser

Usually Means Quotes #99239
#5. Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

John P. Kotter

Usually Means Quotes #116339
#6. A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

Jack Gardner

Usually Means Quotes #142047
#7. I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

Mitch Albom

Usually Means Quotes #143462
#8. Panic might feel like a bad thing, but in actual fact, it contains thousands of little splinters of hope. When panic is gone, it usually means that those splinters are gone too.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Usually Means Quotes #148430
#9. Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Eugene McCarthy

Usually Means Quotes #148755
#10. You want to go out?" he asks suddenly.
I blink. "As in a date?"
"Yes. That's what a guy usually means when he asks that question.

Sophie Jordan

Usually Means Quotes #167114
#11. I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

Debra Winger

Usually Means Quotes #183096
#12. We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

Frances Moore Lappe

Usually Means Quotes #194458
#13. The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Keith Rabois

Usually Means Quotes #213379
#14. When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.

Ken Follett

Usually Means Quotes #255473
#15. When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

John Steinbeck

Usually Means Quotes #264426
#16. And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese.

Ellen Sussman

Usually Means Quotes #279165
#17. A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

Northrop Frye

Usually Means Quotes #312108
#18. In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.

David Chipperfield

Usually Means Quotes #400220
#19. Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Shigeo Shingo

Usually Means Quotes #430679
#20. A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Robert Musil

Usually Means Quotes #453214
#21. Sooner or later usually means too late

Scott Westerfeld

Usually Means Quotes #482347
#22. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

Frances Moore Lappe

Usually Means Quotes #488013
#23. Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Andre Dubus III

Usually Means Quotes #516740
#24. Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

Rick Riordan

Usually Means Quotes #520538
#25. Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.

Erik Naggum

Usually Means Quotes #533084
#26. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phil Crosby

Usually Means Quotes #534336
#27. It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Usually Means Quotes #539389
#28. Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

Jean Craighead George

Usually Means Quotes #542501
#29. In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

Edward'O

Usually Means Quotes #561146
#30. Restructuring a job usually means restructuring a score of jobs, moving people around, and upsetting everybody. There is one exception: the exceedingly rare, truly exceptional man for whose sake the rule should be broken.

Peter F. Drucker

Usually Means Quotes #572808
#31. There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Matt Mullenweg

Usually Means Quotes #602357
#32. I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people.

Elle Lothlorien

Usually Means Quotes #721563
#33. It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

Karin Slaughter

Usually Means Quotes #767013
#34. Fat free usually means it's loaded with sugar!

Jason Vale

Usually Means Quotes #768024
#35. Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Gabriel Mann

Usually Means Quotes #769698
#36. Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

John Zorn

Usually Means Quotes #775276
#37. In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Rebecca West

Usually Means Quotes #790840
#38. As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

Andrew Weil

Usually Means Quotes #803941
#39. The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

Neal A. Maxwell

Usually Means Quotes #810362
#40. *Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Usually Means Quotes #836669
#41. Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!

Tae Yun Kim

Usually Means Quotes #848264
#42. Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

Helen Oyeyemi

Usually Means Quotes #898966
#43. You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The rallying cry is If you can't dazzle 'em with genius, baffle 'em with bullshit.

James W. Blinn

Usually Means Quotes #920271
#44. We're in this together usually means I'm here for you, unless it requires me getting into my car anywhere near rush hour.

Dov Davidoff

Usually Means Quotes #961022
#45. [Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

Rachel Carson

Usually Means Quotes #981347
#46. When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental.

James Anderson

Usually Means Quotes #983073
#47. The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Paul Bocuse

Usually Means Quotes #993523
#48. So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

Mark Ronson

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#49. And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

Warren Farrell

Usually Means Quotes #1037501
#50. As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

Mindy Kaling

Usually Means Quotes #1073496
#51. I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!

Poppy Delevingne

Usually Means Quotes #1078956
#52. If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Coco Chanel

Usually Means Quotes #1081766
#53. When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.

Louise Hay

Usually Means Quotes #1119103
#54. I hate it when he [Pigpen] goes dead serious. It usually means bad shit is going to go down.

Katie McGarry

Usually Means Quotes #1145080
#55. Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Alan Perlis

Usually Means Quotes #1213376
#56. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

A.J. Flowers

Usually Means Quotes #1296958
#57. The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

Eric Hoffer

Usually Means Quotes #1372220
#58. I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

John Raptor

Usually Means Quotes #1415352
#59. The willingness to use force usually means you won't have to. It is a paradox because our modern culture conditions us to believe violence attracts violence, and violence never solves anything.

Marc MacYoung

Usually Means Quotes #1431322
#60. Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other
or kill ourselves.

Orhan Pamuk

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#61. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Mignon McLaughlin

Usually Means Quotes #1521895
#62. When you get wet, it usually means something good.

Bill Belichick

Usually Means Quotes #1522797
#63. To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Jack Lynch

Usually Means Quotes #1605226
#64. The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

George Carlin

Usually Means Quotes #1654617
#65. Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.

Molly Harper

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#66. The "yes" comes from my improvisational days and the opportunity that comes with youth, and the "please" comes from the wisdom of knowing that agreeing to do something usually means you aren't doing it alone.

Amy Poehler

Usually Means Quotes #1685807
#67. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Usually Means Quotes #1701339
#68. Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end scrambling around trying to find something.

Ronald Frame

Usually Means Quotes #1704487
#69. I don't know"
"When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

Robin Hobb

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#70. It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

Mary Parker Follett

Usually Means Quotes #1723838
#71. When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

Samiyam

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#72. policy discussion usually means pitting one model against another. Viewpoints and policy prescriptions that aren't backed by a model typically don't have standing.

Dani Rodrik

Usually Means Quotes #1800470
#73. But now suddenly it occurs to me that by far the main protagonist of twentieth-century literature must be the chattering mind, which usually means the mind that can't make up its mind, the mind postponing action in indecision and, if we're lucky, poetry.

Tim Parks

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#74. Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

Anne Lamott

Usually Means Quotes #1816291
#75. 'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.

Rudolf Virchow

Usually Means Quotes #1874527
#76. Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.

Gillian Flynn

Usually Means Quotes #24925
#77. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

Usually Means Quotes #27554
#78. The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

Joe Morton

Usually Means Quotes #74458
#79. But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.

Ali Smith

Usually Means Quotes #100880
#80. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Jason Fried

Usually Means Quotes #104026
#81. So he has no head'
'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?'
'Its just kind of silly even for us ...

Derek Landy

Usually Means Quotes #117755
#82. Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.

Arnaud Desplechin

Usually Means Quotes #123125
#83. Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

Usually Means Quotes #131693
#84. Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Bill Pullman

Usually Means Quotes #156163
#85. It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

Colin Munroe

Usually Means Quotes #160948
#86. Chicken or shellfish gumbo, usually a side. ("Sopa de" means

Happy Holidays Guides

Usually Means Quotes #283345
#87. Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Jeannette Walls

Usually Means Quotes #331954
#88. 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

Usually Means Quotes #403687
#89. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Albert Ellis

Usually Means Quotes #427717
#90. As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be more severe between them, if they come into competition with each other, than between the species of distinct genera.

Charles Darwin

Usually Means Quotes #506617
#91. Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

Joe Bastianich

Usually Means Quotes #538018
#92. Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action.

Peter Sloterdijk

Usually Means Quotes #538386
#93. If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Patrick N. Allitt

Usually Means Quotes #544272
#94. I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

Shuji Nakamura

Usually Means Quotes #588782
#95. Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

Allan Bloom

Usually Means Quotes #602508
#96. Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the never-ending supply of the life of God.

Oswald Chambers

Usually Means Quotes #624981
#97. But love is a fluid thing. It's not the same for every person. The concept is. The reality isn't. When you hear people talking, they're usually trying to validate their own perception of what love is, or what it means to be in love.

Brandon Shire

Usually Means Quotes #646862
#98. I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

Nicholas D'Agosto

Usually Means Quotes #695011
#99. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

C. Wright Mills

Usually Means Quotes #777365
#100. Large scale collective bargaining ... is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.

Frank Knight

Usually Means Quotes #780185

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