Generally Quotes

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.