General Quotes

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Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. — Horace
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy… — John F. Kennedy
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of… — Mike Huckabee
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in… — Ezra Klein
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we,… — Clifford D. Simak
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As… — Anatoly Karpov
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not… — Garry Kasparov
I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my… — Mike Tyson
Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high. — Mike Tyson
I would only spend a week or two in the Philippines, most probably the week during my birthday because I am planning to give away… — Manny Pacquiao
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit… — Bernardo Bertolucci
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is… — Alain Badiou
As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them… — Timothy Pickering
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has… — Jonathan Lethem
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is… — Kate Bush
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power… — Shigeru Ban
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"… — J. Reuben Clark
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be… — Samuel Johnson
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes

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