General Quotes

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

I don't go to parties in general.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

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.