General Quotes

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.