#general

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#demands #effort #especially #every #frame

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population. ↗

— Jay Roach

#audience #better #consuming #each #film

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#center #did #feel #flown #general

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#definite #ever #everyone #generalities #go

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#class #class consciousness #consciousness #destinies #general

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent. ↗

— Jared Sparks

#anything #civil #civil government #enlightened #experience

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#black or white #generally #i #labeled #most

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#anything #better #classical #else #general

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power