Quotes of: General-sense Keyword

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Christopher Lee

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

John Cornyn

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

B. Carroll Reece

There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

Ben Rattray

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

James Madison

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

Joe Sacco

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Peter Morgan

Obadiah Stane: [holding Tony's arc reactor] A new generation of weapons... with this at its heart.

Iron Man

General Allenby: I thought I was a hard man, sir. Prince Feisal: You are merely a general. I must be a king.

Lawrence of Arabia

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Hello there! General Grievous: General Kenobi, you are a bold one!

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Oriana Fallaci

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Philip Marlowe: Thanks for the drink, General. General Sternwood: I enjoyed your drink as much as you did, sir.

The Big Sleep

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Akhmad Kadyrov

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

Life

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Jim Webb

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

Fool's Assassin

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly