#usual

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face. ↗

— David James Elliott

#fights #fist #get #punched #usually

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#find #hands #lucky #man #nothing

If men have a smell it's usually an accident. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#men #smell #usually

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#done #great #great change #history #optimists

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#better #educated #least #people #smart

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#around #complaining #everything #go #golden

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#autobiography #bad #except #his #memory

I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise. ↗

— Debra Messing

#body #continue #dress #exercise #fit

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy