Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what…
— Herman Cain
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My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
— Lars von Trier
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I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking…
— Ian Fleming
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In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one…
— Niki Lauda
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
— Jacky Ickx
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
— Diogenes
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Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully…
— Menachem Begin
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We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
— Paul McCartney
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The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
— William Graham Sumner
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
— Samuel Johnson
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A consistently highly creative person is generally irresponsible.
— Theodore Levitt
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When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
— Sarah Zettel
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Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and…
— Alex Garland
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What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable…
— Pat O'Shane
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When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
— Carl Sagan
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as…
— Jeffery Deaver
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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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