General Quotes

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.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

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.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.