Quotes About General

Lenin added a postscript on January 4, 1923, recommending Stalin's removal from the post of general secretary.

Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

Yet the most terrifying thing about serial killers is that they are not shambling, jabbering ogres, but rational and calculating, impossible to tell from the general populace until it's too late. 

And right is a lid you put on something and some of the things under the lid look just like some of the things not under the lid, and there never was any notion of what was right if you put it down on folks in general that a lot of them didn't start squalling because they just couldn't do any human business under that kind of right.

triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle. Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle

Did I just hear something tear?" General Gillespie asked. "It sounded like the Constitution." Jenny caught the look on Max's face. Interesting. He looked disgusted. A liberal general? We're fighting snouts here!

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

There's a story that circulates among my colleagues about the sister of a general, picked up in Moscow for black market speculation.

The reason is precisely the advance of specialization, the impossibility of making safe general statements, which has led to a general imbecility.

Wedding presents Charles and I went around the General Trading Company [a fashionable gift store frequented by the Establishment]. Looking back on it was quite a funny thing to do--so Sloane!

The formal surrender took place shortly after 18.30 hours on Saturday, 22 June 1940, signed by the French General Charles Huntzinger in the same railway carriage at Compiègne, 50 miles north-east of Paris, where the Germans had themselves surrendered in 1918.

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The truth is that church by its nature is a very general concept and most people are not looking for a church; otherwise, churches would be full of visitors every week. What people are looking for is something that works for them as individuals. And that is something specific, not general.

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.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.