Quotes of: Our-generation Keyword

I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness.

The Liberator

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

Macbeth

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Pearls are a Nuisance

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

A Treatise of Human Nature

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Wittgenstein's Mistress

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

Ayad Akhtar

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

Dick Thornburgh

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

L.A. Reid

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

Marcus Samuelsson

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Ninette de Valois

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar N. Bradley

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

Giles Duley

There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with the victims, not the perpetrators.

George Fetherling

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Jewel

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

Niki de St. Phalle

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

Najib Razak

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

Natalie Wood