Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Francis Crick

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
Francis Crick

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
Martin C. Smith

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
Paul Haggis

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Novalis

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.
Tom Felton

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
Ice Cube

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
Michael Polanyi

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
Karl Radek

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
Karl Radek

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Herman Kahn

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
Natalie Portman

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Donald Rumsfeld

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

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
Charles de Lint