Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
Steven Wright

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
Steven Wright

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Rodney Dangerfield

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Erma Bombeck

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin