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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 think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
— Donald Judd
I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.
— Stana Katic
Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. — Brian K. Vaughan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
— Charles Darwin
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
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
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
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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
