Generally Quotes

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Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures. — Maggie Stiefvater
He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly:… — Cassandra Clare
Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely. — David Markson
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead. — Zadie Smith
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather… — Beverley Nichols
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. — Kate Atkinson
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... — Daniel Handler
I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do. — Daniel Handler
Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside… — Naoki Higashida
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. — Frank Moore Colby
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Elbert Hubbard
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and… — Samuel Johnson
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and… — Samuel Smiles
Beauty and folly are generally companions. — Baltasar Gracian
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… — John Maynard Keynes
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and… — Seymour Papert
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their… — Aristotle
Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most… — Jacob Abbott

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