Quotes About General Practice

#1. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...

Queen Victoria

#2. General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

Henry Howarth Bashford

#3. I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Junot Diaz

#4. It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

William Osler

#5. A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#7. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Lord Chesterfield

#8. It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

Henry Mintzberg

#9. I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Frank Delaney

#10. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Warren Buffett

#11. Without constant practice, the officers will be nervous and undecided when mustering for battle; without constant practice, the general will be wavering and irresolute when the crisis is at hand.]

Sun Tzu

#12. People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.

Billy Graham

#13. Hot, perpetually pissed-off angel seeks living pincushion for scowl practice and general stabbiness. No kissing.

Laini Taylor

#14. I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

Luise Rainer

#15. Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Elliot Richardson

#16. Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#18. Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Margaret Sanger

#19. There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

Joseph Addison

#20. Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Morley Safer

#21. Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny The Elder

#22. In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Edward Abbey

#23. Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general.

Siobhan Maclean

#24. I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

Harold Brodkey

#25. There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

Marilyn Monroe

#26. I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Alexander Henry

#27. Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

John Tyler

#28. A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

Lysander Spooner

#29. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Bessemer

#30. The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

Harold H. Greene

#31. How unfair she'd been to assume love and money would preclude pain and hardship.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

Henry James

#33. I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

Joseph Bruchac

#34. There was almost general consent over the fact that the application of the Christ spirit and practice to the everyday life was the serious thing. It required a knowledge of Him and an insight into His motives that most of them did not yet possess.

Charles M. Sheldon

#35. As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful".
Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#36. I'm not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I'm not you. I need my throat.

Seanan McGuire

#37. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

Bernard Lown