Generally Quotes

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Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves… — Gordon B. Hinckley
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by… — Martin Amis
When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things. — Jostein Gaarder
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and… — John Stuart Mill
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It… — Calvin Coolidge
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen. — Benjamin Franklin
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every… — Jane Austen
Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known — Thomas M. Disch
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their… — Paulo Coelho
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer… — Edith Wharton
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,… — Boyd K. Packer
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. — Jostein Gaarder
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. — Aldous Huxley

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