General Quotes

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

General consultant to mankind.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.