#general

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#disguised #exhibited #expressed #feelings #general

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#army #bulk #city #district #general

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comparatively #generalizations #had #his #impact

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#being nice #bully #children #especially #generally

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#background #because #characters #easier #generally

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#generally #man #natural #passions #proud

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit. ↗

— Joe Wright

#civilian #exactly #film #fit #generally