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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
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
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
15General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.
— Tim Kaine
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
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
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
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
Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?
— Stephen Hawking
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
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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 have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.
— Conor Oberst
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
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
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
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 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
