Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. Barbara Deming
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. Lafcadio Hearn
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. Walter Kaufmann
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. Walter Kaufmann
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. Charles Francis Richter
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. Peter Garrett
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. David Sarnoff
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further. David Brainerd
I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work. Kurt Russell
Double push is an inline speed skating technique. It is uncertain who first invented the doublepush. Chad Hedrick is generally acknowledged as having brought it to the public eye.
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
