#general

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#disaster #ends #generally #you

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. ↗

— Pete Wilson

#amendment #available #cloak #constitutional #constitutional right

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#general #general manager #going #i #knew

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #hypocrisy #thoughts #hypocrisy

...is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren...attending national schools. It may be very cynical, but on the appointed day those Lyceums of lower learning are turned into polling stations, the homes of innocence temporarily become part of the grim apparatus of politics and the scheming of sundry chancers. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#home

The D.H.C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments. "Just to give you a general idea," hew would explain to them. For of course some soft of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #intelligence

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #general-relativity #mathematics #quantum-mechanics #religion

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. ↗

— David Arquette

#being #critical #everything #general #get