Famous quotes containing the word generally:
“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from usbut I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combatso ... instead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand. This is of great use.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)