Quotes About General

I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.

It is the honor of a lifetime to serve as Director. I long ago grew to know and admire the FBI from my earliest days as a line prosecutor to my years as assistant attorney general.

As a young prosecutor, I used the Bureau of Criminal Investigation extensively. I saw that there were problems with BCI. Frankly, I thought I could fix them. I thought if I was successful, I could really make a difference as attorney general.

The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border – like a toll – most of the intelligence it contained.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective.

The general feedback we get is I'm the best loser.

The Attorney General is the state's chief consumer advocate, fighting to protect the financial security of all Illinoisans.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to work. That is disturbing in terms of our general democracy.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

This may sound paradoxical: one can, from a Darwinism vantage point, advise sexual restraint for women, roughly echoing traditional moral exhortation, while at the same time decrying the moral censure of women who don't take the advice. But you might as well get used to the paradox, for it's part of a more general Darwinism slant on morality.

Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza poscoito, en la pinche tristeza de la carne, en todos los libros que no había leído.

Oh," said Penric. "I didn't introduce ourselves, did I. I'm Penric and my demon Desdemona. Say something, Des." "Idiot child," said Des dispassionately. "Could you be a more witless tool?" "Uh, not sure that's helpful, Des." "She tried to kill my favorite Cedonian general. You can't expect me to like her.

good & universal (or general law) are synonymous terms in the universe.…

Hamilton believed that the United States should preemptively seize Spanish Florida and Louisiana, lest they fall into hostile French hands. To accomplish this, he directed General James Wilkinson to assemble an armada of seventy-five riverboats.

The problem is not technological," he said. "And there is no technological solution to it. The problem is human, human nature in general, male human nature in particular

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.