Quotes by category:Usual

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

Terence McKenna

agendas political usual

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles.

usual wind long

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

usual earning way

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Theodore Dreiser

usual world thinking

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

usual desire men

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

shallow records usual

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

Thomas de Maiziere

nsa return usual

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

Thomas Kretschmann

usual opportunity hands

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Thomas Love Peacock

usual taken school

In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

impact usual years

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them. by Tiffanie DeBartolo

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

usual needs

Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.

Tim Hetherington

support independent usual

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Timothy Geithner

typical usual business

The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.

cutting important usual

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

usual moon promise

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

schemes poor usual

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

style usual fun

I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

usual beautiful world

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual by Virginia Woolf

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

optimistic usual writing

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into somethin... by Vladimir Nabokov

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

Vladimir Nabokov

soup usual memories

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