General Quotes

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

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.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

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.