Usual Quotes - Page 12

• The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

  Ellis Peters

  Talking, Voice, Ears

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

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• As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Cutting, Dinner Plates

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

  George Orwell

  Cat, Listening, Speech

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.28, Barron's Educational Series

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• Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Duplicity, Brain, Saws

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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• I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Men, Years

  Mark Twain's seventieth birthday speech at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, www.pbs.org. 1905.

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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

  Tacitus

  Life, Lovers, Excited

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• 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'.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Columbus, Clown

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• I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

  Clara Barton

  Accomplished, Senate

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• ...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

  William James

  Science, Abuse, Way

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.22, 谷月社

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Happiness, Lying, Discipline

  The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.

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

  Ella Maillart

  Confidence, Dream, Literature

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• The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

  Al Gore

  Answers, Fuel, Saving

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• 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.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Greek, Theatre

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.

  Albert Ellis

  Self Esteem, Men, Emotional

  Albert Ellis (2005). “The Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever”

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

  Anne Roiphe

  Hate, Confused, People

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• In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Two, Groups

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Simple, Diversity

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.322, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Hard Work, Writing

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• [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Miracle, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.115, Penguin

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Kindness, Freedom

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Hands, Years

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• I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Thinking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.614, Race Point Pub

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• One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Long, Broken, Meals

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