G Quotes
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“Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.”
“Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to "help" a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she man sound to him.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.”
“Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.”
Source: The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred
“Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.”
“Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.”
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
Source: The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.”
“Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912
“Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.”
Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.”
“Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.”
Source: The Language of leadership
“Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.”
“Generally speaking, I am not interested in the future and don't believe in it. First, I guess it is true that I don't trust the future, but, more to the point, I don't even trust the "myself" of tomorrow, nor, for that matter, of the day after. Basically, all I know, and all I am capable of understanding, is the "me" that is here, now, the "me" that has dragged his past with him to this point.”
“Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire.”
“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”
Source: The Areas of My Expertise
“Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.”
“Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.”
“Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.”
“Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.”
“Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.”
“Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.”
“Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.”
“Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.”
“Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games”
“Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.”
“Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.”
“Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.”
“Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.”
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept”
Source: Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
“Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.”
“Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.”
“Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.”
“Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.”
“Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.”
“Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most of us don't get what we wanted, and most of us find ways to have really interesting lives anyway.”
“Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.”
“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law”
Source: The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.”
“Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.”
“Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.”
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
“Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.”
“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.”