Quotations
Names:
General George Patten
Quotes:
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
View quotes by Sun Tzu
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
View quotes by Marie Curie
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Architecture in general is frozen music.
View quotes by Friedrich Von Schelling
Morally, the general superiority of women over man is, I think, unquestionable.
View quotes by William E H Lecky
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinion and uncommon abilities.
View quotes by Walter Bagehot
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
View quotes by Ezra Pound
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual
View quotes by Maximillian Robespierre
As it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
View quotes by Pedro I
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
View quotes by Scott Adams
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
View quotes by Peter Ustinov
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
View quotes by John Adams
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
View quotes by William Blake
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
View quotes by Samuel Butler
I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.
View quotes by Rebecca Romijn Stamos
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
View quotes by Igor Stravinsky
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
View quotes by William Faulkner
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
