Top 100 Usually The Quotes
#1. That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#2. The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true to their character, and as great strength is usually the cover for good nature, we get on with them at need.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Ian Wright
#4. It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace
#6. Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.
John C. Maxwell
#7. People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other ... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.
Nicholas Nixon
#8. Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
Jonathan Levine
#9. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT
Darynda Jones
#10. Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.
A.S. Neill
#11. The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.
Dan Miller
#12. Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
Thomas Moore
#13. It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
David Eagleman
#14. People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.
Robert Z'Dar
#15. When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.
Ashwin Sanghi
#16. One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.
J.S. Goldstine
#18. I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.
Tom Felton
#19. John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.
Edsger Dijkstra
#20. I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
Eddie Van Halen
#21. One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.
(from 'Celestial Navigation')
Anne Tyler
#22. Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their parents.
James Lee Burke
#23. Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.
Sarah J. Maas
#25. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher
Sergei Lukyanenko
#26. The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
Adam Mansbach
#27. I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
Joyce Meyer
#28. Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.
Dagur Kari
#29. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#30. Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.
Lance Henriksen
#31. Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
Stephen Malkmus
#32. The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell
#33. Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.
Jesse Schell
#34. New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
Carmine Gallo
#35. Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.
Jonny Lang
#36. When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.
Michael Mina
#37. 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
#39. Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
Seamus Heaney
#40. What stops most people in their tracks. It's not the dreaming, we all have dreams. It's not the visioning process. It's usually the hard part of the equation. The part where we need to create action.
Tony Curl
#41. Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.
Erica Goros
#42. I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
Harlan Coben
#43. In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.
Ronald Dunn
#44. Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results.
Dan Millman
#45. It's one that still happens, actually ... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.
Steve Morse
#46. I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor
#47. I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular
Rachel Cohn
#48. The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
Albert Einstein
#49. Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
Shaun White
#50. Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone.
Teresa Palmer
#51. Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
Mo Rocca
#52. Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them.
Sam Ewing
#53. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#54. There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!
Sergei Lukyanenko
#55. I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet ... I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.
Jillian Lauren
#56. Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.
Megan Fox
#57. The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me omg boner.
Leah Raeder
#59. Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.
Luis Gonzalez
#60. You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.
Joseph Stiglitz
#61. I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'
Doug Jones
#62. I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.
Shepard Fairey
#63. The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
Gertrude Atherton
#64. An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.
Kenneth G. Mills
#65. Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.
Coeur De Pirate
#66. A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
Chris Morris
#67. There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.
Greg Daniels
#68. Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
Joel A. Barker
#69. A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
Joseph Goebbels
#70. Autumn
The season between summer and winter,
comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
usually the months of September,
October and November.
A period of maturity.
Cecelia Ahern
#71. 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
#72. When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles
#73. A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
William Hazlitt
#74. Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
Viggo Mortensen
#75. I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.
Leah Raeder
#77. In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#79. Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.
Nana Awere Damoah
#80. Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
Mallory Ortberg
#81. The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.
Bre Pettis
#82. In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.
Kate Rockland
#83. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
Aimee Mullins
#85. Usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film ...
Arthur Miller
#86. It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.
Andrew Flintoff
#87. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
John Sununu
#88. Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
Thomas Bangalter
#89. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M Valente
#90. Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
Todd Solondz
#91. A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth Tynan
#93. I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.
Charlie Hunnam
#94. I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.
Zac Posen
#95. When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
Edmund Phelps
#96. Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.
Marco Brambilla
#97. I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.
Nikki Cox
#98. Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
Amy Sedaris
#99. Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
Robin Williams
#100. We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
Beth Ditto
