General Quotes

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.