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  • As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. -- John Lennon
  • I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal
  • You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. -- Walker Percy
  • Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. -- Phyllis Theroux
  • I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. -- Walt Whitman
  • Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. -- Dorothy Parker
  • As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. -- Vandana Shiva
  • Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. -- Mark Twain
  • There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual. -- Ottmar Edenhofer
  • Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin
  • If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams. -- Bede Jarrett
  • I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. -- Jim Butcher
  • Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments. -- Howard Zinn
  • Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down. -- Pema Chodron
  • The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare. -- Dean Koontz
  • People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. -- Martin Amis
  • The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! -- Winston Churchill
  • Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again. -- Gary Gulman
  • Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you. -- Alexander Cockburn
  • They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either. -- Joe Pantoliano
  • Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. -- Phyllis Theroux
  • Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for. -- James Taylor
  • Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' -- Paul Watson
  • Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. -- Martin Amis
  • I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. -- Jackson Pollock
  • I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull. -- Tom Bergeron
  • And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. -- Beatrice Wood
  • America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. -- Georges Clemenceau
  • All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
  • The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. -- Richard Rorty
  • The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' -- Tertullian
  • I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. -- Jennifer Egan
  • A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. -- Tom Freston
  • Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
  • I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' -- Mohsin Hamid
  • My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. -- Melissa Gilbert
  • I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm. -- Gayle King
  • For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them. -- John Ridley
  • I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president. -- Christine Pelosi
  • The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. -- Bob Schieffer
  • Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. -- Walter Russell Mead
  • Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.' -- Ravi Zacharias
  • Just charge me with the usual. -- Bob Probert
  • As usual, my timing is bizarrely good. -- Jamie Oliver
  • History, sir, will tell lies as usual. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • The unusual wins out over the usual. -- Sam Abell
  • War is the usual condition of Europe. -- Peter Kropotkin
  • Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight. -- Joseph Conrad
  • My usual self is a very unusual self. -- Shelagh Delaney
  • Summer has set in with its usual severity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me. -- David Thornley
  • I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. -- Clara Barton
  • Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
  • Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
  • BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual. -- Jim Butcher
  • As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity. -- Ngaio Marsh
  • CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight. -- Bill Watterson
  • The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.... -- Henny Youngman
  • There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. -- Henry James
  • As usual, no one's ever around when you need them. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
  • Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. -- Julian Barnes
  • After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. -- G. M. Trevelyan
  • So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. -- Richelle Mead
  • I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... -- Dodie Smith
  • My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. -- Iain Banks
  • A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. -- William James
  • Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding. -- Dainin Katagiri
  • My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. -- Silvio Berlusconi
  • The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time. -- Mason Cooley
  • It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that's all Percy had. -- Rick Riordan
  • Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way. -- Martin Luther
  • The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. -- Ellis Peters
  • It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares. -- Rachel Marsden
  • As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. -- George Carlin
  • CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three. -- David Letterman
  • Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business. -- Richard Branson
  • Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. -- Raymond Queneau
  • We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. -- Beaumont Newhall
  • This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual -- Sebastian Coe
  • I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual -- Virginia Woolf
  • The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city. -- Harold Washington
  • Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. -- John Taylor of Caroline
  • The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. -- Plutarch
  • I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. -- Bud Selig
  • Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. -- Shunryu Suzuki
  • Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. -- Charles Lamb
  • I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. -- Nellie Bly
  • The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER. -- Bruce Rauner
  • I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful. -- Caetano Veloso
  • The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. -- Georges Bataille
  • Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. -- David Ginola
  • All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense. -- Eoin Colfer
  • Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough. -- Alan Parry
  • Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. -- Edward St Aubyn
  • But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is. -- Audrey Niffenegger
  • Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. -- William Allen White
  • Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup." -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • ... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual. -- Hermann Bondi
  • General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. -- Julian Barnes
  • Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. -- Julie Garwood
  • He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. -- Martin Amis
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