A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
Charles Babbage

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.
Tori Amos

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Linus Torvalds

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Pete Rose

Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Matt Damon

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
Sandra Cisneros

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
Stokely Carmichael

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Samuel Smiles

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
Billie Jean King

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge