Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
“Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other’s strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Everybody denies I am a genius—but nobody ever called me one!”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)