Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
If you have a great mission statement from a great vision statement then your greatness will surpass your own generation.
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
the wind is scary.. during a tornado or in life in general.. never know when a gust is going to come in your direction and change everything
I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.