General Quotes

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

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.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.