Top 100 Quotes About General
#1. Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.
Margaret Cho
#2. The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
George Washington
#3. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.
Josh Earnest
#4. Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Mark Twain
#5. I, Patrick Lien, son of General Brendon Lien, do hereby swear my life to helping Princess Wilhelmina Korte reclaim her kingdom, no matter the cost.
Jodi Meadows
#6. Suddenly, just in time, I realised that he was a filthy Hun, so of course I turned my back on him and refused to shake hands. I think he noticed; anyway, I hope so. I hope he felt his position - General Murgatroyd
Nancy Mitford
#7. Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.
George Eliot
#8. I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
Richard Simmons
#9. General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Victor Davis Hanson
#10. I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
Miuccia Prada
#11. I don't dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them.
Katja Millay
#12. Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
#13. We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese communities, companies, institutions, and social movements.
Theodore C. Bestor
#14. Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
Idries Shah
#15. I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.
Vincent De Paul
#16. I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.
Charles Fleischer
#17. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
Susan Cain
#18. Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
Marcel Duchamp
#19. I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#20. Mrs. Benjamin does not precisely understand first aid, but she thinks she gets the general principles: things that are within the body must stay within at all times. If they do not stay in, they must be forced in, and kept there via things like gauze and sticky tape.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#21. So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick
#22. I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.
Adam Hicks
#23. We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Leaving the house in general really doesn't mix with toddlers, but long lines just indicate poor parental planning and judgment.
Jim Gaffigan
#25. I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
Vladimir Horowitz
#26. First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
John Rawls
#27. I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
Andy Hertzfeld
#28. Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#29. Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
Wilhelm, Ostwald
#31. Martin Van Buren was a shitty guy. Not just because he was a bad president, and not just because he was pro-slavery. Van Buren was shitty in a very general sort of way. And with all that that implies.
Daniel O'Brien
#32. I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
Kristen Stewart
#33. I wonder who in their right mind thought I was mature enough for this: motherhood, home ownership, a career, adulthood in general. I hope I have them all fooled, that I have any clue at all what I'm doing.
Cassandra Dunn
#34. A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
Charles James Fox
#35. When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
Howard Tayler
#36. Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
Carl Jung
#37. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
Tony Abbott
#38. I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
Julian Assange
#39. There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Joseph Addison
#40. Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.
Abbas Kiarostami
#42. My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.
Susan Sontag
#43. Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
Maurice Baring
#44. General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
Henry Villard
#45. I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
Brian May
#46. A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is - as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility - dukes and such.
Mark Twain
#47. You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
Danny Huston
#48. In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Ira Glass
#49. To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#50. If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
Calvin Trillin
#51. Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
Ann Kirkpatrick
#53. I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.
Holly Black
#54. The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
Henry Fielding
#55. John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George Eliot
#56. Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
Odeya Rush
#57. Problem Identification and General Needs and Targeted Needs Assessments. The problem identification and general needs assessment for a curriculum
Patricia A. Thomas
#58. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
Eric S. Raymond
#59. Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions - say 10 percent - of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.
Carl Sagan
#60. If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.
John Roberts
#61. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
Sun Tzu
#62. Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?'
'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin.
'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.
Graham Greene
#63. Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
Alexander Hamilton
#64. Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.
Rumer Willis
#65. The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.
Sara Cox
#66. This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
#67. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
Benjamin Booker
#68. Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#69. To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
Liza Minnelli
#70. I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
William, Saroyan
#71. One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead
William R. Trotter
#72. We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.
Ridley Pearson
#73. General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
Suetonius
#74. I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
Robert Hurt
#75. My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman
#76. I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
Douglas Hurd
#77. The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.
Paul Halmos
#78. What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Hermann Hesse
#79. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Noam Chomsky
#81. [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#82. In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar Wilde
#83. If he considered God at all, he thought of Him as an old and honored general, retired and gray, living among remembered battles and putting wreaths on the graves of his lieutenants several times a year.
John Steinbeck
#84. I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#85. A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
Paul Yingling
#86. Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Ambrose Bierce
#87. Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
David McCullough
#88. We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?
John Blacking
#89. People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
Wayne Gretzky
#90. And finally: I reserve for myself the right to yearn after an ecological niche:
...Beneath the sky
Of my America to sigh
For one locality in Russia.
(a passage not for 'general readers' but for 'idiots')
Vladimir Nabokov
#91. It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.
Ada Lovelace
#92. Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body.
Margaret Cho
#93. I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
Steven Wright
#94. In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.
Claude Nicollier
#95. But she could not reduce her vision to words, since it was no single shape coloured upon the dark, but rather a general excitement, an atmosphere, which, when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of the northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools.
Virginia Woolf
#96. I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
Neko Case
#97. Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
Charlotte Bronte
#98. Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#99. I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#100. Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
Etgar Keret
