Quotes About General

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.

The term International Gothic is applied to the arts in the early fifteenth century because there was so general an exchange of influences throughout Europe.

Labels do serve some useful functions in feedback. Like the soup label, they give us a general idea of the topic, and they can act as shorthand when we return to that topic later. But the label is not the meal.

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not a poet.

The groups who spend the most on lobbying lawmakers in Washington are well-known: ExxonMobil, Boeing, AT&T, General Electric.

If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails.

I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

It makes good sense for planners everywhere to provide more facilities in general that are aimed at older folks.

One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

It's fun to perform Bernie Sanders and give his boring percentages and fact-based points to address some ridiculous Trumpisms, because that was always my fantasy for what the general election would look like.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

les psychologues, par exemple, limitent ordinairement leurs observations à un seul type d'humanité, l'Occidental moderne, et ils étendent abusivement les résultats ainsi obtenus jusqu'à prétendre en faire, sans exception, des caractères de l'homme en général.