Usual Quotes - Page 27

• [I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

  Ernie Pyle

  Real, Thinking, Pertinent Questions

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• One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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• After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Stars, Tired, Presidential

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• Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought of doing had the sun come out as usual. In which case, thank God for the rain.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Art, Rain, Play

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• In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

  George Washington

  Running, Strong, Party

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  Jack Irons

  Journey, Play, Band

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• I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.

  Suzanne Segal

  Eye, Doors, Two

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• A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Death, Giving, Mad

  'Journal' p. 29

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• 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

  Business, Typical, Fierce

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

  Gangaji

  Silence, Inward, Attention

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• A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

  Susan Piver

  Dark, Night, Emotional

  Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Velocity, Way

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

  Richard Branson

  Doing Good, Recognise

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• On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  Zhang Xi

  Football, Wall, Weekend

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• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

  Thomas Boswell

  Skills, Sorrow, Tragedy

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

  Billy Bragg

  Mixing, Use, Embarrassment

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Children, Animal

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• We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Children, Hate

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

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Men, Way

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• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

  Bruce Lee

  Happiness, Self, Games

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• Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Years, Bird

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• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Squares, Games

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• 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.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Justice, Literature

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.929, Delphi Classics

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• My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

  Al Jardine

  Horse, Couple, Pigs

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