Top 485 Generally Quotes

Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It’s just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.
Ivana Trump
I don’t believe in trickle-down economics. I don’t think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
Dave Matthews
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80’s, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I’ve learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.
Susanna Hoffs
When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don’t generally do that with any other jobs. We don’t talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.
W. Kamau Bell
The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, ‘It’s working,’ ‘It’s not working,’ but generally, I think if you make a good movie that’s scary, people will come.
Jason Blum
Most men are far younger when they have their children and they’re building their careers. If they are older they probably don’t have the luxury of retiring – and generally sixty something-year-old men don’t choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.
Jennifer Grant
I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.
Bill Bryson
I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn’t think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
Mark Gatiss
But it’s just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That’s the big problem that we all have to think about.
Alexander Payne
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Nelson DeMille
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider
I don’t think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport, but generally speaking I wasn’t competitive in nature.
Abhinav Bindra
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White
But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
Omar Bongo
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by – those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.
Sharon Salzberg
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Aristotle
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true – it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Lafcadio Hearn
While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.
William M. Daley
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
Arsene Wenger
We’re constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of – and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.
Frank Miller
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Charles Bukowski
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could so

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.
Tim LaHaye
A less icy Arctic is coming, and generally speaking, that’s not a good thing. Climate change is warming this region twice as fast as the global average, threatening wildlife and indigenous communities.
Tatiana Schlossberg
People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.
Virat Kohli
I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
Helen Clark
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
Mark Helprin
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett
I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It’s not that I have a problem with food; I’ll eat anything that doesn’t involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.
A. A. Gill
Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
Thomas Bulfinch
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bill Joy
If you go out to Hollywood you’ll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
Jimmy Cliff
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
Rowan Atkinson
I think it’s crucial for athletes to get plenty of fluids whether their regime is intensive or not. For me, generally, I eat and drink a lot so that I’m always at the top of my game.
Mario Gotze
I don’t think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don’t have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it’s really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience.
David Tennant
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
Alan Huffman
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there’s about 50 people with producer credits, so what’s the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
Tim Roth
I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That’s why I generally don’t like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
J Mascis
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
Eric Allin Cornell
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Rebecca Solnit
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore
I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I’m doing.
Imogen Poots
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
Steven Van Zandt
Generally, I’m a pretty mellow guy.
Shaun White
I don’t snack. I don’t generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.
Anthony Bourdain
That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
Robert Shea
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Graham Nash
If the consumer generally feels like they are going to have a job… access to money… we will see them spend that.
Doug McMillon
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I’ve been on so many movies. Generally, I haven’t gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in ‘Dear John,’ I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn’t a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
Channing Tatum