Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
Rowan Atkinson

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Natalie Wood

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry A. Kissinger

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
Bruce Springsteen

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton

Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Nicholas Sparks

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
Nora Roberts

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Nora Roberts

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
George Whitefield

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds