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The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college. — Peter Cameron

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell

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

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else. — Stana Katic

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. — Julius Caesar

Some general advice about writing:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. — Brian K. Vaughan

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms — Joe Carter

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it. — Ralph Nader

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest. — Heather Brooke

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

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

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

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. — Paul Harris

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

The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest. — Simon Sinek

Go tell your general for me that if he does not immediately withdraw his men, I will send them to hell! — Sam Smith

The theory of government changes with general progress. — Ulysses S. Grant

Only great and general battles can produce great results — Carl Von Clausewitz

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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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

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. — Andre Malraux

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

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore

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

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

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

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

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait. — David Gunn

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell

(...) 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

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

Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general. — Siobhan Maclean

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me. — P.G. Wodehouse

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. — Samuel Johnson

Love shouldn't be safe — Elizabeth Webber

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes

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

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. — Jenji Kohan

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

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. — Brent Weeks

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

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work. — Clark Duke

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

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

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. — Roy Harper

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

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

We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general. — Sean Hannity

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

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ... — Murasaki Shikibu

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

Progress has been much more general than retrogression — Charles Darwin

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. — Gary Cooper

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

General uncivility is the very essence of love. — Jane Austen

Seek to complete rather than compete. — Linda K. Burton

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

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. — H. G. Bissinger

General consultant to mankind. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Freedom is the breath of the soul — Dr. Dr. Mohammed Abad Al Razak

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

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general. — Charlie Tahan

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

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both. — Kim Stanley Robinson

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

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule. — Nick Johnson

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

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. — James Lind

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

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. — Dan Simmons

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

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

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

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

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. — Fran Lebowitz

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. — Alexander Herzen