General Quotes

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

General consultant to mankind.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.