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  • General consultant to mankind. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • General notions are generally wrong. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
  • General Lee, I have no division. -- George Pickett
  • March on, the Lord is our General. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • My mother was a Jewish General Patton. -- Don Rickles
  • Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius. -- James L. Rubart
  • General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess. -- William Blake
  • General rules will bear hard on particular cases. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. -- Robert J. Sawyer
  • General Motors spends more on health care than steel -- Kathleen Sebelius
  • Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck. -- Richard Condon
  • General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • General Motors spends more on health care than steel. -- Kathleen Sebelius
  • Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. -- Charles Bukowski
  • General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner! -- John S. Mosby
  • General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. -- William Blake
  • General rules have been legislated into being by past masters. -- John Ciardi
  • The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. -- Arthur Hailey
  • Bad Cyclops Lady!" he bellowed. "General Tyson says GO AWAY! -- Rick Riordan
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  • Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive. -- Joe Biden
  • General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader. -- Michele Flournoy
  • General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. -- Michael Hastings
  • General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. -- Buffalo Bill
  • How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms -- Joe Carter
  • Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata. -- Rand Paul
  • What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors. -- Barack Obama
  • I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen. -- Frank Buckles
  • General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it. -- Ralph Nader
  • What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.! -- Al Capp
  • General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. -- Harlow Curtice
  • [On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world. -- Nina Totenberg
  • I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. -- Richard Simmons
  • It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home. -- Genie Francis
  • Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? -- Richard S. Ewell
  • The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. -- Oscar Wilde
  • [Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump]. -- George Stephanopoulos
  • Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! -- Maxcy Gregg
  • General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. -- Jane Austen
  • Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'. -- Gough Whitlam
  • General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. -- Suetonius
  • I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors. -- John Bolton
  • General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! -- James Longstreet
  • God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! -- Robert Orben
  • Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. -- Isaac R. Trimble
  • There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield. -- Michael Shaara
  • Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. -- George B. McClellan
  • Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. -- Andre Malraux
  • So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government. -- Tony Abbott
  • I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! -- Robert McNamara
  • General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • I'm pretty hard on myself in general. -- Natalie Portman
  • Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule. -- Nick Johnson
  • Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. -- Socrates
  • All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves. -- iO Tillett Wright
  • Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. -- Maynard James Keenan
  • Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance. -- Mary Lambert
  • The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. -- Dennis Ritchie
  • Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general. -- Burning Spear
  • Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. -- Piers Anthony
  • In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. -- Claude Nicollier
  • With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'. -- Joan Rivers
  • I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. -- Alex Turner
  • My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge. -- Nicki Minaj
  • Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. -- Maximilien Robespierre
  • Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
  • The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. -- Orson Pratt
  • Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble. -- Troy Polamalu
  • For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever. -- Axl Rose
  • From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. -- Marina Abramovic
  • People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others. -- Hayley Hasselhoff
  • A good general chooses his battlefield. -- Tony Slydini
  • In general, our generals were outgeneralled. -- John Adams
  • I'm disappointed in people in general. -- Vinton Cerf
  • A beaten general is disgraced forever. -- Ferdinand Foch
  • Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • I'm very, very low-key in general. -- Debby Ryan
  • Fashion is general. Style is individual. -- Edna Woolman Chase
  • The general will is always right. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • I fart in your general direction. -- Graham Chapman
  • I prefer black music in general. -- Phil Collins
  • Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers. -- Mike Lee
  • I hate negative ads in general. -- Ed Rendell
  • A general must be a charlatan. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Architecture in general is frozen music. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
  • I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. -- Brett Davern
  • All general judgments are loose and imperfect -- Michel de Montaigne
  • In general, comedians are attracted to vice. -- Natasha Leggero
  • Particular lies may speak a general truth. -- George Eliot
  • I'm very interested in people, in general. -- Audrey Tautou
  • I'm not a good collaborator in general. -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Men, in general, are but great children. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I don't go to parties in general. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The news media in general are liberals. -- Barbara Walters
  • I'm a big sports fan in general. -- Luke Bryan
  • The general market wants what I do. -- Karen Kingsbury
  • True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Kim's [Kardashian] just a funny person in general. -- Kanye West
  • I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. -- Arizona Muse
  • I love lipbalms in general; they're very important! -- Erin Heatherton
  • It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general. -- Ferdinand Foch
  • True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient. -- Shannon Hale
  • In general, I almost always watch foreign films. -- Alexandra Fuller
  • The theory of government changes with general progress. -- Ulysses S. Grant
  • It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. -- Ferdinand Foch
  • Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love. -- Maurice Baring
  • The goal of art-making in general is communication. -- Will Cotton
  • Progress has been much more general than retrogression -- Charles Darwin
  • Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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