Generally Quotes

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.