People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar. . . Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.
I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary. "
It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.
Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.
If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them. . . Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.
I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.
To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and tested against evidence. They do not get to float freely down the mainstream; they must swim against the current. They cannot rest on the orthodox power to foreclose dissent, and they are not supported by the unanimity of bias that passes for objectivity.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.