Top 1200 General Lee Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.

Acting in general is weird for me, but it's fun.

I'm a big fan of Donald Glover in general.

When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly.

People like change in general, but not in particular.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries.

I'm a big fan of matching outfits in general.

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I guess music in general is the transportation business.

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

Fans are an essential part of sport in general.

I don't want to go to general medical doctors.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

I just love working with actors in general.

I respect General Halutz very much so.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.

Balls in general are not a good looking item.

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

I don't tend to wear a lot of makeup in general.

I've given everything I've got as attorney general.

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

TV doesn't, in general, date very well.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

I look forward to hosting Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong], whose friendship and partnership I appreciate very much and with whom I've worked throughout my administration. This will also be an opportunity for me to reciprocate the hospitality that the Prime Minister and the people of Singapore showed to me during my visit to Singapore for the APEC summit in 2009.

The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.

I love lipbalms in general; they're very important!

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

A good general chooses his battlefield.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

Reality, in general, in my opinion, has gotten blurred.