#general

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#angeles #attachment #because #being #change

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#general #i #past #suppose

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

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

— Moliere

#compromise #generally #heaven #negotiate #pleasures

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#commander #decision #decisions #general #good

I'm the worst Bond, according to the internet. Generally hated! ↗

— Roger Moore

#bond #generally #hated #i #internet

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#bad #broad #early #generalization #his

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind