General Quotes - page 6

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. (Elihu Root)
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? View quote
Neil LaBute
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation. View quote
Margaret Mahy
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. View quote
Caleb Cushing
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality. View quote
Griffin Dunne
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years. View quote
Gary Miller
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. View quote
Helmut Jahn
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' (Harold H. Greene)
In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. View quote
Martin Yan
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. View quote
Olympia Brown
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. View quote
Roy H. Williams
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. View quote
Sean Lennon
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. View quote
William Robertson Smith
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kafir. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. (Peter Agre)
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. View quote
Charles Darwin
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think. View quote
Kirk Douglas
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. View quote
William Glasser