General Quotes - page 5

Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. (Edward Young)
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. View quote
George Mason
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. View quote
Smedley Butler
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. View quote
Edgard Varèse
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. View quote
Horace
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. View quote
Mark Twain
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. (Winston Churchill)
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity--intuition and compassion and tenderness--and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. View quote
Carlos Santana
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. View quote
Aristotle
"How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum. View quote
Tony Blair
In the penultimate decade of the twentieth century science is sufficiently advanced to resolve the puzzles that stymied scientists in the last century and demonstrate, without metaphysical speculation, the consistency of evolution in all realms of experience. It is now possible to advance a general evolution theory based on unitary and mutually consistent concepts derived from the empirical sciences. View quote
Ervin László
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. View quote
Andy Stern
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. View quote
Roland Emmerich
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. (Rose Tremain)
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. View quote
Charles Cooley
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
Alex Berenson