General Quotes

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

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

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?