General Quotes

3621 General quotes by 2393 unique authors

The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can… — Unknown Author
The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. — Monica Crowley
I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. — Paul Merton
You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort, — Matthew Lewis
Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his… — Andy Lau
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military — Catherine Bell
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more… — Haley Joel Osment
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that… — Oscar Niemeyer
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only… — Yitzhak Rabin
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader… — Richard Adams
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general. — Winston Churchill
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man… — Georges Bataille
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a… — Francis Thompson
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting… — Ilka Chase
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a… — Robert Benchley
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will. — Thomas Pynchon

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