Usual Quotes - Page 4

• The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Character, People, Depth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Born Of Shadows: Number 4 in series”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

  Ludwig Quidde

  War, Moving, Teeth

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• The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, People, Interesting

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• When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cutting, Men, Clothes

  Jonathan Swift (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.73

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• It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

  Stanislav Grof

  Space, Ego, Body

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

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• Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner - the know-nothing fundamentalist right - it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Brother, College, Government

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• The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mother, Writing, Phones

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• I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Appreciation, Land, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Long, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

  Winston Churchill

  Business, People, British

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Cat

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: Just charge me with the usual.

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Blood, Car

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• Just charge me with the usual.

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Nhl

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• I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

  Bud Selig

  Self, Want, Analyzing

  "Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he's reviewing pending Marlins-Blue Jays trade" by the Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2012.

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• In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, the first things to show up were the wild beasts.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Giving Up, People

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• Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Philosophy, Mean, People

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• I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Long, Giving

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

  Robert Graves

  War, Knowledge, Civilization

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• During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Window, Blitz

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• Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

  William Allen White

  Men, Greatness, Quality

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• 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.

  John Perry Barlow

  Age, Boundaries, Idiocy

  "Terrorism and Democracy in Madrid". Personal blog "BarlowFriendz", March 10, 2005.

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• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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