Quotes About Broad Generalizations

#1. It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

Roger Ebert

#2. The entire notion of being defined by the crap you bring into your minds, bodies and souls, rather than what you produce with your mind, body and soul is a glaring offense to everything we are here to do on this beautiful blue ball of a planet.

Michael Tallon

#3. Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.

David Mitchell

#4. I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even distinguish the difference between twenty-one and twenty-two or the difference between thirty-eight and thirty-nine.

Sarah Manguso

#5. The idea of a character dichotomy between women and men has been overwhelmingly, decisively, refuted. The broad psychological similarity of men and women as groups can be regarded, on the volume of evidence supporting it, as one of the best-established generalizations in all the human sciences.

Raewyn W. Connell

#6. They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

Barney Ross

#7. Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

Sai Baba

#8. I'm not into business at all.

Freddie Mercury

#9. Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

James Cook

#10. It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

Mark Consuelos

#11. Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Wess Stafford