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Quotes About General

This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.
~ Harper Lee
Our laws are very clear on a woman's reproductive health care. I will not only enforce those laws as attorney general, I will take the appropriate action against anyone who tries to interfere with a woman's right to choose her reproductive health care.
~ Dan Donovan
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
~ James Longstreet
Legend has it that when Franco's troops crushed Catalonia in 1939, relegating it for the next thirty-five years to abuse and neglect, one of his generals was asked what more he could possibly want now that he had Barcelona.
~ Michael Paterniti
When I hear Ivanka Trump saying how she looks forward to working side by side with Gen. Kelly - a guy who's got 40 years' worth of experience leading troops all across the world - and she makes handbags, come on.
~ Richard Ojeda
It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
~ Maimonides
Some commentators have attacked the special counsel regulations as giving the attorney general the power to close a case against the president, as Mr. Barr did with the obstruction of justice investigation into Donald Trump. But the critics' complaint here is not with the regulations but with the Constitution itself.
~ Neal Katyal
When it comes to the general election, we are no longer running as an individual: we are running as the head of a ticket. And so the party itself will be doing some things to raise money, and Mr. Trump has indicated that he'd be willing to help the party.
~ Paul Manafort
There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.
~ Eric Holder
Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want
~ Claude C. Hopkins
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
~ Aaron Allston
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
~ Al Sharpton
We distort with deliberate purpose; we confine vast meaning into the strictures of imagined necessity. In this lies both failing and gift, for in the surrender of truth we fashion, rightly or wrongly, universal significance. Specific gives way to general; detail gives way to grandiose form, and in the telling we are exalted beyond our mundane selves.
~ Steven Erikson
It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.
~ Steven Kotler
The search for predictive and explanatory general rules—that's the crux of our game.
~ Steven Vogel
I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
~ Steven Wright
I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
~ Steven Wright
The general was almost exactly as Shan had imagined him: tall, aloof and with a mystifying Mewtish character, as if he continually guarded secrets.
~ Storm Constantine
If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
~ Thomas Sowell
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.
~ Michael Moore
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
~ E. L. Doctorow
There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
~ Nathan Lane