African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O'Keeffe

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Will Ferrell

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
Jack Kevorkian

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Robert Orben

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome