Usual Quotes - Page 7

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

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.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

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

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

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