Lt. General Horrocks: This is a story you will tell your grandchildren; and mightily bored they'll be.
Field Marshall Walther Model: Why do all my generals want to destroy my bridges?
Colonel Saito: Let me remind you of General Yamashita's motto: be happy in your work.
General Sternwood: I assume they have all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves.
Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
