Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!
This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future can use then I don't feel like we've served our purpose on this earth in an effective manner.
I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. . . . A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.
I think less is more in terms of makeup in general.
When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner. " And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically. " And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible. . . then may the Devil take you!
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.