Usually Quotes

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Saints are usually killed by their own people."
-Eric Sevareid

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
-Mark Twain

"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
-Henry Ford

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."
-Charles Dickens

"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess."
-Rene Descartes

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
-Herodotus

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
-Douglas Adams

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
-John Locke

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
-Malcolm X

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
-Kin Hubbard

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."
-Robert Bresson

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
-Cyril Connolly

"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: 'We would be more alive if we did more of this,' and, 'Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.' Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."
-Peter McWilliams

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."
-Blaise Pascal

"The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots."
-George Eliot

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"The first one is usually the best pitch, so that's the one I look for and that's the one I go for all the time. I wanted to hit the ball and do something good, start something for the team."
-Jackie Frey

"Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men."
-Hasidic Saying

"We had the right person shooting the ball; he just missed it. Fortunately we got the rebound on the back side. That's what you see a lot of times on a last-second situation. Usually it's not the first shot that goes in, it's the tip. And that's what happened tonight."
-Travis Hannah

"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both."
-Susan Sontag

"It is too risky to have a substitute like him. You never know what he is up to next. We have advised him many times to stay cool. However, he usually acts on the contrary."
-Asif Bajwa

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
-Eric Hoffer

"We do a round of voting for prizes. It takes a couple of rounds. The awards of merit are usually the contenders for the top prizes."
-Carol Brode