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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. — William Cowper

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him. — Robert Jordan

Your sarcasm and general assholeness are not necessary," Apollo remarked casually. I grinned at him. "I don't think 'assholeness' is a word. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

That's the thing- with that summer and hard times in general, you've gotta take the salty with the sweet. It's always a balance. — Mamrie Hart

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

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. — Percy Williams Bridgman

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. — Gaspar Noe

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies. — Linda Sunshine

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families. — Ja Rule

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. — Chinua Achebe

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something. — Colin Hay

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. — Gregory Crewdson

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. — Joseph Conrad

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. — Brian Lamb

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General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! — Robert McNamara

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started. — Tim Kaine

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them. — Andrew Gurland

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down. — Alain De Benoist

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. — Carre Otis

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

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind. — Joseph Conrad

I'm a fan of music in general. — Johnny Galecki

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically. — Darius Khondji

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. — Edward Hopper

The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl. — Frederick Lenz

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. — Jennifer Aniston

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. — Josh Billings

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method. — Dallas Willard

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! — James L. Brooks

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. — Aldous Huxley

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general. — Akeem Ayers

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. — Edward Young

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence. — H.G.Wells

In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you. — Seth Godin

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. — Charles Horton Cooley

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired. — Sydney Biddle Barrows

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. — Robert Payne

Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. — Stef Penney

Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time? — Stephen Hawking

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper. — A. N. Wilson

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. — Avicii

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering. — Mary Barra

Wildlife of the world is disappearing ... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect — Prince Philip

A tax on capital would promote the general interest over private interests while preserving economic openness and the forces of competition. — Thomas Piketty

Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity. — Jessie Fuller

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. — Augustus William Hare

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general. — Ed Droste

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

(...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days. — Thomas More

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged. — Thomas Hobbes

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. — Isaac Marion

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings. — Victoria Legrand

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. — Miles Teller

This is part of what it means to be a God, that You are a general principal of Being, instantiated throughout all of Being. — Sam Webster

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

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

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one. — Alexander McCall Smith

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. — John Lawler

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh. — Dan Fogler

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. — Joan Chen

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The atoms all seem to be made from the same general constitution. They have a nucleus, and around the nucleus there are electrons. — Anonymous

I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. — Eric Holder

It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole. — Leonardo Sciascia

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? — Mahatma Gandhi

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. — Neil Gaiman

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. — Margaret Oliphant

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. — Ken Starr

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness. — Alex Van Halen

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. — Katie Nolan

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory. — Chen-Ning Yang

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. — Marion Nestle

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band. — Justin Vernon

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me. — Pam Bondi

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. — Giacomo Casanova