All Quotes

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
‐‐ Sun Tzu

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.
‐‐ Sun Tzu

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
‐‐ Maximilien Robespierre

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
‐‐ Aristotle

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.
‐‐ Jillionaire

The generation that I'm in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don't think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi

The generation we live in, we're constantly entertained - we turn our heads this way, and there's something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.
‐‐ Ruthie Ann Miles

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
‐‐ Jan Peter Balkenende

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.
‐‐ Jon Porter

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
‐‐ Robert Reich

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
‐‐ Kate Chopin

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.
‐‐ Elizabeth Emken

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
‐‐ Phil Bredesen

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
‐‐ Ken Burns

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
‐‐ Al Spalding

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
‐‐ Phil Gramm

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.
‐‐ Mark Van Doren

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
‐‐ Gamal Abdel Nasser

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
‐‐ Otto Weininger

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.
‐‐ Richard Preston

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
‐‐ Iain McGilchrist

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.
‐‐ Gregory Stock

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore