Quotes about usual
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“Usually when you’re in love, you’re miserable.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love

“Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Dreams, Reality, Dependency

“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 book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“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 book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

People, Moms, Personality

“Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

Knowledge, Science

“I went to college. Got a master’s degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys.”
She gave her grandmother a wry look. “You know, the usual girly stuff.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: The Vampire and the Virgin

Guy, Training

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Business

“When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Variant: When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Quotes

“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Life, Game

“Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.”

Anita Desai (1937) Indian novelist

Books, Hope, Disappointment, Feeling

“Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: Four & Twenty Blackbirds

People, Passion

“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Life, Success

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Truth, Lie, Courage, Time

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Pain, World, Time

“I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“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 (1897–1962) American writer

“He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Exercises, Reading

“It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room."
Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb)
Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“Lothaire:Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

People

“They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Angels

“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect

Hurt, Personality

“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, People, Nature

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Business

“The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Life, Death, Departure, Dependency

“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 Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Home

“How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Home

“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Source: Bloody Bones

“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.”

Siri Hustvedt (1955) novelist, essayist, poet

Source: The Blindfold

Night

“… there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Fools

“Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

People

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Love, Dreams, Reading

“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Life, Happiness, Imagination

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

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Thinking, Personality

“Leo didn't usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. (Pathetic, sure. But not sad.) Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo's feels.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Sadness, Feeling, Thinking

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

Learning

“We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits.
- Joe Morelli”

Janet Evanovich Hard Eight

Source: Hard Eight

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Idea

“There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

People

“Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight”

Sister Souljah book Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Source: Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Personality

“Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

“Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Death, Thinking

“Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.

It's really not even fair to everyone else.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Imagination

“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”

Jerzy Kosiński (1933–1991) Novelist

Sleep

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

"Emotions", p. 36.
The Second Sin (1973)

Happiness, Children, Dead, Funny

“My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.”

Brandon Mull The Candy Shop War

Source: The Candy Shop War

People

“Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”

A. Lee Martinez (1973) Author

Source: A Nameless Witch

Error, Time

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

People

“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”

Stephen King book Just After Sunset

Source: Just After Sunset

World, Victory

“The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

People, Problem

“Catherine […] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Happiness

“It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Men, Cats

“I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

People, Change

“Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women…. they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Women, People, Reality, Strong

“You will tell me what you know now," he said.

"Or?"

He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Guy, Thinking

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Personality

“Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

“I will take a serious approach to a subject usually treated lightly, which is a nerdy thing to do.”

Benjamin Nugent (1950) American writer

Source: American Nerd: The Story of My People

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

"A First Word" <br class="br"> A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

Happiness, Way, Change, Past

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”

Dean Koontz book Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

Hope

“Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Life

“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”

Helen Oyeyemi (1984) British author

Source: What is Not Yours is Not Yours

Love

“Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Sex

“Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Time

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

People, Silence

“He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

Children, People, Books, Age

“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Death, Waiting

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Learning

“I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Life, Feeling, Sense, Strong

“For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in
full view.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Failure, Success

“I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.”

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

Life, Feeling, Time

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Love, Forgetting

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said,
"Let me take a look at him. Shane?"
"I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Age, Guy

“First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Something from the Nightside

“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are
usually nice hors d’oeuvres.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

War

“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men, Time, Falseness

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”

Stephen King Insomnia

Source: Insomnia

Life, Beauty

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Finding Noel

Life

“Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

Sleep, Cry

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Death, People

“Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Reality, Universe

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire

Source: Foundation and Empire

“Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

Wedding, Night

“Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names… well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

God, Way, Daughters

“It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Idea

“Retribution is tricky…. The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

Way, Learning

“You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said.
"I just enter. I don't usually break."
"You broke down Pitch's door."
"Lost my temper."

-Ranger and Stephanie”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Business

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