#generally

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

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#fairly #fever #generally #get #hatch

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#close friends #dinner #friends #generally #having

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. ↗

— Demosthenes

#believes #dupe #easiest #generally #his

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

#against #democracies #despots #especially #generally

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#any #being #broader #context #experience

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. ↗

— Joan Didion

#generally #hadn #i #i am #out

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#generally #sing #slaves #well #work