A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
Jacky Ickx

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

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
Bjorn Lomborg

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Lakhdar Brahimi

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
Bob Woodward

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Gerald Brenan

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
Sarah Zettel

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
Fritz Sauckel

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Edward Sapir

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford