General Quotes

3621 General quotes by 2393 unique authors

The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students… — William Z. Foster
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the… — Bernard Lown
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and… — Julius Wellhausen
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern. — Antony Hewish
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing… — Robert Sternberg
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure… — Dick Thornburgh
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. — Unknown Author
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of… — George Orwell
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. — James L. Barksdale
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into… — B. Carroll Reece
I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like… — Astley Cooper
Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Unknown Author
The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of… — Christian Siriano
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't… — Tony Horwitz
Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to… — Michael Shaara
General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if… — George Meade
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army. — Robert E. Lee
Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? — Richard S. Ewell
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I… — W. S. Gilbert
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor-through some kind… — Jack Handey
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave… — Charles Kettering
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had… — P.G. Wodehouse

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