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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. — Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law — Auberon Waugh

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... — Hannah Arendt

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking. — Daniel Radcliffe

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them. — John Hodgman

money has no nationality, only people do, and generally speaking those are people who have nothing else. — Dubravka Ugresic

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. — Paul Wolfowitz

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible — Kurt Vonnegut

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. — Jostein Gaarder

... generally speaking there can be no high-grade obligations of a weak enterprise. — Benjamin Graham

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics — Steven Erikson

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance — Friedrich Nietzsche

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground. — William Stone

Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work. — William T. Vollmann

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. — Kamala Harris

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored — Alice Walker

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas. — B.R. Ambedkar

Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. — Tim LaHaye

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers. — Cleveland Amory

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. — Tom Brokaw

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. — Wislawa Szymborska

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. — Jeff Bridges

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much. — John Hodgman

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good. — Kevin McCloud

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey. — Katherine Heigl

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same. — Seth Rogen

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. — Seamus Heaney

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally. — Josh Dallas

Whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods. — Jose Saramago

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail. — Chris Pine

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs

Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse. — Thomas Ligotti

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I. — Maureen Lipman

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. — Kate Atkinson

Generally speaking, I try not to generalize. — Addison C. Arthur

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force. — Aristotle.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. — David Hume

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants
both know too much of him. — Charles Caleb Colton

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on. — Vitaly Scherbo

The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it. — William J.H. Boetcker

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. — William Allen White

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. — Jasper Fforde

But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares - generally speaking, nobody even notices. — Jeff Lindsay

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch

Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell. — Lenny Abrahamson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. — Rowan Atkinson

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. — Gary Oldman

Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves!
I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant! — Daniel Petra

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games — John Wooden

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight. — Fran Lebowitz

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters. — Fran Lebowitz

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind. — H.L. Mencken

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. — Dalai Lama

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain. — Edward Norton

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people. — Christopher Reeve

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this. — Tom Hollander

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. — Dirk Benedict

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. — Patricia C. Wrede

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East. — Neill Blomkamp

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. — John Gray

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi

Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands. — Margot Fonteyn

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. — Emma Thompson

Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature. — Jose Saramago

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other. — Ehud Barak

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off. — Matthew Norman

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. — Gertrude Stein

Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be. — C.C. Hunter

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring. — Pearl Zhu

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing. — Diana Gabaldon

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with. — Thomas Carlyle

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her. — David Bonderman