General Quotes

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.

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

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.