General Quotes

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

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.

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.

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

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.