Quotes About General

An order went out on October 15, 1522, naming Cortés governor, captain general, and chief justice of New Spain.

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things.

As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don't try to define all the exceptions... I only teach the general rules. Whether an exception applies to you is your responsibility. You must work out individually between you and the Lord.

library period, the army guy with the wig said that he was George Washington. After a while, we started calling him George Washington. "General Washington," I asked, "may I go to the bathroom?" Everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. Kids think anything to do with bathrooms is funny.

What if this isn't China's war?" the voice asked. "What if this is just a war with the Soviets? Can you change the plan?" "Well, yeah," said General Power resignedly, "we can, but I hope nobody thinks of it, because it would really screw up the plan.

Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

house he'd taken over from its original Mexican owners. The General was a portly middle-aged Creole

race and species are only general concepts, except in so far as they exist in the individual being'.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

Finally one evening somebody suggested Python (a great name for an untrustworthy impresario, I thought), someone else added Monty, which had connotations of our greatest World War II general, there was hysteria, and history was made. A

Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content.

Two months after leaving Paris, Lafayette, began calling himself "general" and, rejecting his marquisate

When the Mongols invaded India, one general built a pyramid in front of the walls of Delhi to terrify the remaining enemies into surrender. Pyramids aren't scary though, surely? Well, this one was, being made from ninety thousand human heads.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general