Generally Quotes

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Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit,… — Paulo Coelho
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink. — Pete McCarthy
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense… — Oswald Chambers
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded… — Derrick Jensen
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is… — David Foster Wallace
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness — John Green
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. — Marcel Proust
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing… — Sloane Crosley
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect… — Charles Dickens
Ask two people to tell you anything, youâ€™ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a… — Gabrielle Zevin
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste… — George Packer
Sometimes when you get older â€” and Iâ€™m not talking about you, Iâ€™m talking generally, because everyone ages differently â€” things you think on and… — Sara Gruen
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really… — Soren Kierkegaard
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's… — Dave Eggers
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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