General Quotes - page 87

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition. (Christopher Lasch)
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. View quote
Alan Rickman
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general. View quote
Lev Grossman
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. View quote
Leighton Meester
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight. View quote
Lydia Davis
Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion. View quote
Mike Pompeo
In Wichita, the district I represent, the 'Air Capital of the World,' general aviation is critical to the proper functioning of our airspace and is a key driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. View quote
Mike Pompeo
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. View quote
Michael Caine
Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users. (Annie Lennox)
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album. View quote
Joan Jett
I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports. View quote
Enrique Iglesias
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. View quote
Giovanni Agnelli
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. View quote
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
The mathematician speculates the causes of a certain sensible effect, without considering its actual existence; for the contemplation of universals excludes the knowledge of particulars; and he whose intellectual eye is fixed on that which is general and comprehensive, will think but little of that which is sensible and singular. View quote
Proclus
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general. View quote
Henry George Bohn
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. View quote
Diane Arbus
In general, the form and the structure of the brains of quadrupeds are almost the same as those of the brain of man... (Julien Offray de La Mettrie)
My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts. View quote
Christian Louboutin
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time. View quote
Christian Louboutin
An intrinsic problem, similar to the one we discussed in connexion with tradition in general, presents itself with the process of transmission of the symbolic universe from one generation to another. Socialization is never completely successful. Some individuals 'inhabit' the transmitted universe more definitely than others. View quote
Peter L. Berger
A society's stock of knowledge is structured in terms of what is generally relevant and what is relevant only to specific roles... the social distribution of knowledge entails a dichotomization in terms of general and role-specific relevance... because of the division of labor, role-specific knowledge will grow at a faster rate than generally relevant and accessible knowledge... The increasing number and complexity of [the resulting] sub universes [of specialized knowledge] make them increasingly inaccessible to outsiders. View quote
Peter L. Berger