Top 490 General Quotes

Words matter. These are the best General Quotes from famous people such as Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Antonio Banderas, Hayden Panettiere, Marisa Tomei, Bob Hayes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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People can doubt me, and they’ll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Antonio Banderas
The frustrating part of it is that you’re generally known for what you did last. I’ve had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn’t see unless you’re at a film festival or you’re into that kind of movie.
Hayden Panettiere
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman’s voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Marisa Tomei
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
Bob Hayes
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
Adoniram Judson
Prior to the 2014 General Election, the country was passing through a phase of uncertainty. After the elections, my government assumed charge and vowed to build a New India. A New India with no place for imperfect, corrupt and inertia ridden systems.
Ram Nath Kovind
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katharine Graham
In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or otherwise become illegal. But, at the same time, civilized society tends to frown upon it.
Sharyl Attkisson
It’s a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.
Scott Kelly
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
Billy Barty
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
I don’t know the first real thing about the dating game. I don’t know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
Jason Schwartzman
Honestly, I’m not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the ‘Indiana Jones’ trilogy.
Miles Teller
I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
Britney Spears
I don’t think there’s much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
Bruce Sterling
The traditional practice is that the justices don’t ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn’t mind if they asked him questions and they did.
Harold H. Greene
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Diane Johnson
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.
Gwen Moore
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn’t really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, ‘Nah, let’s change that,’ and I designed the page.
Neal Adams
My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you’re in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.
Finn Wolfhard
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
Ernestine Rose
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
Molly Parker
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
P. J. O’Rourke
I think there’s a far more general audience now because I’ve done more populist stuff on telly.
Jo Brand
Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born in the Philippines, where it’s different, because it is about who you know, and who knows what you have to do to get to the top? So they had a lot of that skepticism.
Manny Jacinto
When I’m sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.
Andrea Barrett
In general, I don’t know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven
There is a rising generation in this country who do not

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
Arthur Middleton
I just love working with actors in general.
Treat Williams
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
Robert Huber
We live, in North America in general, if I’m given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
Alanis Morissette
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
Fidel Castro
If you’re opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you’re for a tax increase.
Matt Blunt
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
Martha Reeves
When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.
Sunny Hostin
I find infidelity interesting because it’s so revelatory about people. It’s this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.
Junot Diaz
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
Kim Barnouin
Telephones are a virtual necessity – not a luxury – and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
Mike Fitzpatrick
As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.
Dominic Grieve
When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.
Kofi Annan
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
George Crumb
Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.
Vitruvius
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
Paul P. Harris
I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that’s what music has kind of always been for me.
Matisyahu
The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
Ellen G. White
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
Neil Sheehan
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.
Erma Bombeck
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.
Adam Riess