Top 100 Generally Quotes
#1. Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
Maynard James Keenan
#2. I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
Alan Dershowitz
#3. Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#5. Generally she avoided mirrors. It embarrassed her to lose her own breath at the sight of herself.
Kristin Cashore
#6. Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren't flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.
Craig Hart
#7. You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.
Frederick Lenz
#8. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
#9. I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.
Kali Hawk
#10. The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.
Zig Ziglar
#11. Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [ ... ], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
Elizabeth Bishop
#12. You live most intensely in human contact- and that's what we shrink from, poor timid creatures, from giving our souls to somebody to touch; for they, bungling fools, will generally paw it with dirty hands
D.H. Lawrence
#13. [Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
Will Cuppy
#14. When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least be trusted with it.
John Moore
#15. As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
Dee Dee Myers
#16. I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
Fritz Sauckel
#17. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#18. We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.
Martin Schulz
#19. True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.
John Bradshaw
#20. I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
William Shakespeare
#22. I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
Roxane Gay
#23. Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.
Stephen Bier Jr.
#24. We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
John Hawley
#25. I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#26. Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer; Satan has nothing good to offer humanity. John 8:44
Felix Wantang
#27. Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
Albert Camus
#28. Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Alfred Marshall
#29. I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.
Sharon Kay Penman
#30. I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
Joan Didion
#32. I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.
Wolfgang Puck
#33. When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
Ian MacKaye
#34. To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies ... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
#35. Look," she said, making the conscious decision to wrench herself back before her frustrated wolf took control and she found herself feasting on male lips currently thin with anger, "it's nothing personal. I'm generally a bitch.
Nalini Singh
#36. I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.
Bobby Lee
#37. I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'
Christoph Waltz
#38. Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.
Douglas Wilson
#39. When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Sargent Shriver
#40. As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.
Kate Christensen
#41. In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
Susanna Clarke
#42. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
Kapil Dev
#43. To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.
David Wojnarowicz
#44. Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid
#45. You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Neil Simon
#46. The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
George Dyson
#47. In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of Being, an impersonal perfection from which beings including man are separated only by delusion.
John Blofeld
#48. People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Cormac McCarthy
#49. Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between various parts of ourselves. As these parts are simplified and integrated, we experience increased vitality.
Anodea Judith
#50. People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
David Brooks
#51. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.
Laszlo Bock
#52. I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.
Randall Dale Adams
#53. I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
Galileo Galilei
#54. I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have coffee for three hours and never get through all the horrors I've seen. Where was the help when we needed it?
Hannibal
#55. Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.
Loretta Napoleoni
#56. The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
Stephen Neufeld
#57. I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo
#58. Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#59. I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
Sam Neill
#60. Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
Clare Boothe Luce
#61. Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#62. The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#63. Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Matt Groening
#64. Good ideas had in the dark, he thought with a groan, were generally best left there.
Alexandra Bracken
#65. My heart beats red, white, and blue.
And with patriotism it aches
Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights
But in particular, cupcakes
John Walter Bratton
#66. It's a terrific ... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.
Ronald Harwood
#67. Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies
Paul Collins
#68. He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet,
John Ringo
#70. Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
Plato
#71. I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'Rourke
#72. When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.
James K. Polk
#73. A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.
Jose Mourinho
#74. I think musicians should stay off television generally.
Sufjan Stevens
#75. Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.
Michael Lewis
#76. We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.
Ridley Pearson
#77. The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Plato
#78. an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
#79. I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
Candida Hofer
#80. I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.
Fred Saberhagen
#81. I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
Julia London
#83. We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.
Carrie Underwood
#84. Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
Edward Abbey
#85. I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.
Roger Craig Smith
#86. Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.
Henry Fielding
#88. Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?
Joyce Carol Oates
#89. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Alec-Tweedie
#90. Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.
Roger Altman
#91. I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.
Steven Levitt
#92. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William Blackstone
#93. But let him consider that those disorders which are so dangerous that they have gained ground in spite of treatment can generally be treated by opposite methods.
Seneca.
#94. How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.
Philip K. Dick
#95. But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.
John Green
#96. Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
Rose George
#97. Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.
Ezra Koenig
#99. Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
Eartha Kitt
#100. For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.
Michael Nutter
