Quotes of: General-sense Keyword

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Henri Nouwen

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Rita Dove

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Anthony Hope

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

George Henry Lewes

Pinkley: [impersonating a general] Very pretty, Colonel, Very pretty, But, can they fight?

The Dirty Dozen

Princess Leia: General, count me in.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

General Grievous: Time to abandon ship.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Andrew Mellon

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

David Ricardo

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Ziggy Marley

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

Bruce Feiler

I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.

Genie Francis

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

William Kirby

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Matt Groening

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

Dave Barry

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

L.A. Reid

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

Lindsay Pearce

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin