General Quotes

3621 General quotes by 2393 unique authors

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on… — Anne Tyler
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of… — Paul Thomas Anderson
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to… — Frederick Douglass
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my… — Jeffery Deaver
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt… — Daniel Kahneman
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going… — Jonathan Haidt
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus… — Laurell K. Hamilton
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days. — Alberto Gonzales
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in… — H.G. Wells
As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any… — Edward Snowden
General notions are generally wrong. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by… — Christine de Pizan
Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me. — Michael Dukakis
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. — Jung Chang
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the… — Kwame Nkrumah
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years — Gary Miller
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all… — Paul Feyerabend
In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become… — Max Stirner
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the… — Friedrich Engels
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky

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