Usual Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• ...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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• 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 any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Blow, Men

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• Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Soon Enough, Commentators

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• The saint, we are told,
  once lived a life of sin -
  nothing spectacular, of course,
  just the usual things.

  Nissim Ezekiel

  Saint, Sin, Spectacular

  Nissim Ezekiel (1976). “Hymns in darkness”

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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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• So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Trying, Charity

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• 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

  Fighting, Talking, Clubs

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• I worry about Bieber, man. That kid’s wildly talented. I hope he doesn’t fall down into the usual ways of young kids because it’s so hard for someone to be responsible when they’re not asked to be.

  Channing Tatum

  Fall, Kids, Men

  "Channing Tatum Talks Fatherhood, Says He’ll Never Medicate His Child for Learning Disabilities". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Dark, Night

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• Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Philosophical, Writing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

  Katie McGrath

  Princess, Mind, Firsts

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• The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

  Klaus Schulze

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

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• As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

  Ayya Khema

  Long, People, Ego

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• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, Sight, People

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

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Survival, Rabbits

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.155, Oneworld Publications

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Devil, Judgment

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