Quotes 101 till 120 of 191.
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Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
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