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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
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
In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.
— Stana Katic
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
— Sir Fulke Greville
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
— Bertrand Russell
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
— George Jean Nathan
I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.
— Charlyne Yi
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
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
— P.N. Elrod
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
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
General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.
— Italo Calvino
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
— Jennifer Gilmore
In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
— Dave Goldberg
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
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
— Charles E. Wilson
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
The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.
— William Ramsay
I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
— Rachael Yamagata
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
I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
— Mike Leigh
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
— Brian May
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
Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.
— Noam Chomsky
I think in general the ends do not justify the means.
— Howard Dean
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
— Carrot Top
Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity.
— Jessie Fuller
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
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.
— Norman Podhoretz
Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.
— Rumer Willis
I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
— Avicii
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
— Edward Hopper
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
— Josh Billings
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
— Samuel Johnson
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
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
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
— Martin Rees
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ...
— Murasaki Shikibu
I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.
— Charlie Tahan
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
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
We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general.
— Sean Hannity
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
— James Lind
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
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
— H. G. Bissinger
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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
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
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
— Adam Weishaupt
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
— Sonny Rollins
General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.
— John Scalzi
In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.
— Marvin Minsky
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
We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y
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 practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
— Henry James
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
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
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
Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general.
— Siobhan Maclean
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
— Victoria Legrand