When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
John Mayer

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
Charles Babbage

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Stephen Sondheim

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Walter Lippmann

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
Carroll Quigley

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. Morgan

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Tom Brokaw

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Alfred Marshall

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
Edwin Louis Cole

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld