#general

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#conquer #enemy #enlightened #foreknowledge #general

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#biological #generally #gross #her #i

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#direction #down #funny #general #i

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#every #general #human #human being #i

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

— Edmund Burke

#error #general #loudest #most #popular

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#allowed #any #closely #criminal #eliminate

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#career #classes #education #foundation #gave

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage