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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. -- A. E. Waite
I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it. -- Amanda Lindhout
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries. -- Meher Baba
This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values. -- Ron Fournier
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. -- George Catlin
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. -- Mercy Otis Warren
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally. -- Patrick Ness
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. -- Edmund Burke
I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I'm uncomfortable in a general sense. -- Christian Scott
I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. -- Jon Ronson
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. -- David Byrne
There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much. -- Jo Brand
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist. -- Abigail Washburn
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation. -- J. G. Ballard
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along. -- Lois Lowry
A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem. -- Philippa Perry
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. -- Thomas Jefferson
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike. -- Trey Parker
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion. -- Hannah Arendt
I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable. -- Mary McDonnell
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. -- Lisa See
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30. -- Criss Jami
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30." -- Criss Jami
I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general. -- Jamie Bell
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,. -- Allan Sherman
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. -- Gregory Crewdson
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. --
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps. -- Jill Abramson
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together. -- Louis Kronenberger
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. -- Stephen Harper
[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 -- Aristotle
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense. -- Avan Jogia
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. -- Victor Borge
I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general. -- Jorja Fox
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. -- Walter F. Ulmer
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. -- Benazir Bhutto
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit. -- Alanis Morissette
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease. -- Charlotte Bronte
It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling. -- Alan Sepinwall
There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own. -- Howard Hesseman

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