Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for…
— Franz Kafka
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
— Thucydides
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Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of…
— John C. Maxwell
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
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My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun…
— Brett Lee
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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth…
— John Perry Barlow
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We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body…
— Karl Marlantes
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Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it…
— Jane Asher
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If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages…
— Tim Wu
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RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility…
— Sean Lemass
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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.
— Emanuel Ax
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I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift…
— Lee De Forest
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I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go…
— Fritz Sauckel
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I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or…
— Roger Milla
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It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of…
— Charles Sturt
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The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional…
— Paul Tough
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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power…
— Robert Fortune
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added…
— Robert Fortune
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