Generally Quotes

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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. — Lucretius
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and… — Soren Kierkegaard
When things come to the worse, they generally mend. — Susanna Moodie
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. — Lord Chesterfield
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. — Judith Martin
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it. — Tom Holt
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. — Samuel Johnson
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in… — Aldous Huxley
I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much… — Tim Ferriss
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making… — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its… — Seth Shostak
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to… — Rene Descartes

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