Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
— Thomas A. Edison
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I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people…
— Natalia Kills
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I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally…
— Judd Apatow
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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted…
— Ethel Smyth
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
— George D. Prentice
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
— Plato
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I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
— John Updike
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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned…
— Virginia Woolf
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Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man.…
— Gloria Steinem
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
— William Hazlitt
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When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the…
— Neil Kinnock
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I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I…
— Channing Tatum
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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
— Andre Gide
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
— George Orwell
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