Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

If you live in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and you have to mow your lawn, heat is a problem. This has very general applications.

Michael Nielsen

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

In the general run of the mill kid, I think they're generally well tolerated. I don't there's much risk at all if they don't have a heart condition.

Intel was generally positive, but I think the stock had run up into the meeting, so that's why you're not seeing much reaction.

John Abizaid

I do think there is a general lack of understanding in the United States as to how it's going,

Lois Lowry

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.

the obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.

Charles Kennedy

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

Denis Diderot

A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,

It's been suggested that it will be a law of general applications with some exclusions.

Hugh Johnson

It's very cold-hearted, but war has generally been good for the markets and the economy.

It's obvious the House recognizes the serious difficulties with this whole approach. It would have shortchanged the municipalities, and it would have shortchanged the state's general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

It's a general lack of interest at the moment, a lot of stocks are going ex-dividend.

Steve Spurrier

I tried to get the Redskins to hire him as the general manager, ... Shows you how much influence I had.

Mike Babcock

That's quite a statement. I just think when you make general statements when you don't know, you're probably not doing yourself any favors.

That's a general positive, even without gasoline. You see general strength.

It's nice that we can do these things, but this isn't long-term development. It's good for our image ... but it doesn't substitute for general development because the troops come and go.

Ronald Harwood

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

It was a solid increase this year, but not generally spectacular.

It's getting out of hand. But it's not what the general public thinks.

It's generally pretty vague. It could be 10 percent or more, but 10 percent or more of what?

We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the general public.

William Adams

Stocks are generally low by historic standards and the threat of supply disruptions hangs over the market.

Asa Gray

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Imogen Poots

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Gerry Harvey

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Benazir Bhutto

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.