What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If you prune those now, generally you're going to eliminate next year's flowering enthusiasm.
Mick Gainan
When new products come out, they generally expand the marketplace.
Robert Epstein
We generally don't get a chance to beat Sturgis the way we would like to.
Jim Bilsborrow
The first 10 minutes, the first five minutes of a game are very important to us. That's generally when we get our leads.
Ryan Griffin
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?
Louis Camuti
People generally follow the rules of etiquette.
Brian Fritz
Generally, Apple software is very good. That's what they're best at.
Gene Glazer
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
William Brewster
Generally, when kids get home from school, they're hungry.
Tim Wheeler
The university community generally has come to feel that they need to be part of the solution.
Graham Spanier
People are generally not direct in everyday interactions.
Bella Depaulo
Generally you don't want to make decisions too early with these storms.
Carl Fowler
His work was generally superb.
Richard Schickel
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse
Generally speaking, it's the wave of the future.
Andrew Tyndall
Generally the other islands need either more modern cables or competition. They need an alternative to the existing cables.
Georges Krebs
There is no doubt that this is a bonanza for AFL generally.
Harold Mitchell
"I am bored" generally means "I am boring".
Dennis Prager
If you get a message from someone you think you know, generally it's because that person's computer has been compromised.
Ron O'brien
Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot.
Andy North
The mood in the executive suites I visit is generally optimistic.
Thomas Donohue
It just depends on the country. But, generally, you cut the price in half or by 60 percent.
Ron Krannich
The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for women filmmakers generally.
Catherine Wyler
We hear about the ones that are selling but in fact there are many others that are also collecting and they generally do it very quietly.
David Redden
I freaked out. I'm generally a calm, level-headed person who doesn't get too excited about much. But that day I literally floated.
Karen Neuburger
The people who bought in 2003 or sooner ... they generally have enough equity that they're going to do all right.
Christopher Cagan
Generally, the feeling was the conditions were borderline unsafe to race.
Lloyd Roberts
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Gerald Brenan
I don't think anything can prepare you for the emotion of Sunday, but I generally love the place and am eager to get back.
Jason Mccartney
Generally speaking, the proposals fall into three categories.
Monte Shaw
Since they are nonperforming assets, banks generally want to get them off their books as quickly as possible.
Todd Beitler
Our start to the season has been generally encouraging.
Brian Foster
We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally.
Chuck Adams
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
Sir George Savile
It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.
Ian Spector
We don't foresee anything abnormally cold at least through next week. After that it's generally close to average after next week.
Jim Westland
Generally speaking, when we get better rains the pig numbers tend to go up; when we have droughts the pig numbers tend to go down.
Terry Palmisano
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett
The election is taking place in a generally peaceful and calm atmosphere with a huge turnout.
Frances Johnson
What we are doing is really a complete redesign of the rooms. We generally stay on a certain cycle.
Kevin Myers
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
John Lubbock
The board has generally been very reluctant to dip into the long-term reserve.
Michael Loomis
Demand has been strong, generally stronger than what we had expected back in January.
Ron Slaymaker
Shakespeare's heroines are generally quite bold. His women were women of character ? that would appeal to Elizabeth as well because she was certainly a feminist.
Lynne Burroughs
Lambert is generally an unwanted person here.
Robert Kabushenga
They've come from so far, and now they're so close. Generally, they're going to go for it.
Carlos Sanchez
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais
I've always dressed the same-now I can afford to dress slightly better, but I generally just wear brown corduroy.
Mark Webber
Conglomerates are out of favor - the market favors corporate clarity and generally discounts conglomerates. The theme here is a focus on synergies.
Robert Kindler
We see a push by government generally to collect more and more information about its citizens.
Murray Mollard
When we've attempted to apply the brakes in past expansions, we generally ended up skidding into a ditch.
Michael Prell
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
Generally the deeper problems people have, the less they're influenced by game design.
Keith Whyte
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
I ask everyone to appreciate that tomorrow will be a difficult day. But we're hopeful that we'll have a generally peaceful and orderly day ... and credible and acceptable elections.
Peter Urban
Earnings figures reported this week were generally good.
Fumiyuki Nakanishi
Utility stocks are generally used as defensive positions.
Thomas Hamlin
We like to say 13, generally. It all depends on the maturity of the child.
Shari Pulliam
We don't generally hand raise the kangaroos unless we absolutely have to.
Roger Nelson
Four days is pretty quick, but generally we don't get that much time between meets.
Norman Graham
They're generally a bad thing, if you're a property owner. You're basically a tenant on your own property.
Peyton Knight
The era of conglomerates is out of favor - the market favors corporate clarity and generally discounts conglomerates. The theme here is a focus on synergies.
Robert Kindler
Generally, what's driving performance is technology exposure.
Bill Rocco
Generally, there are two types of abatements.
Dennis Carson
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
It was a solid increase this year, but not generally spectacular.
Michael Mcnamara
It's generally when everybody is back from spring break and it's before the mad rush for the end of the [school] year.
Robert Kesten
The catalyst for deals is generally rising corporate profits, ... We should have rising activity next year.
Richard Peterson
All I can tell you right now is that we're generally interested in the area, but it's far too soon to say we're coming for sure.
Joshua Thomas
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
We don't generally do the ads for them, but sometimes it's better if they invest a bit more money.
Julien Letellier
The industry generally falls into two camps: Those who support what we're up to and others who want to collect a fee.
Jonathan Schwartz
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln
People are getting concerned about the U.S. economy slowing faster than generally expected.
Jeremy Hawkins
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
Once again, we see clear evidence of a consumer that is generally resilient and comfortable with their financial position.
Wayne Best
We missed a lot of shots. We had a lot of lay-ups that just weren't going in. We just missed a lot of easy lay-ups, a lot of shots we generally make.
Chris Garvin
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie
Generally speaking, Democrats don't have a chance, and I don't think it will be any different this time.
John Nienstedt
Generally it takes time to build up a caseload and we had a full day of appointments right off the bat.
Beverly Bayan
I don't generally go to a club because I want to go 'clubbin', ... but in England, all pubs close at 11:00 p.m., so I go to clubs because I want to drink later in the evening.
Gary Allen
Generally, I think a lot of it has to do with education. I think everyone has good intentions, but not everyone knows the answers.
Robert Struble
The guy in charge of the main characters is generally going to be a person of color.
Matt Roush
Generally speaking, tax credits are designed to encourage certain activity. Or sometimes they are also used for social policy.
Kurt Kawafuchi
It was an accidental omission. Generally I pay for my own dinners, but this one was supposed to be listed and it wasn't.
Rocky Chavez
The warnings were generally disregarded. It's like warnings today - there are so many of them, they're disregarded.
Cynthia Kiebala
We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.
Jim Harrison
Our programs generally have emergency response components to them.
Steve Lyle
We've done performance comparisons of our scores, including bankruptcy scores, and generally they are very predictive.
Samah Haggag
Generally, that has been very effective, because we get very, very few repeats of those.
Scott Hudson
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Walter Raleigh, Sr.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
Generally speaking, we came through fairly well. There's a lesson here: to acknowledge the power of a tropical cyclone.
Tony Carper
I absolutely think it will continue. It can't last forever but generally the fundamentals are very strong.
Howard Penney
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Judith Martin
He emigrated in the late 1800s. There is some competition about it, but he is generally viewed as the first.
Bob Roberts
From a competitive standpoint, before, [generally] technology companies didn't pay dividends. Now they have lost another argument for not paying one.
James Denney
Generally I do it myself. I love every aspect of it, plumbing, electrical, cabinet making.
Kevin Mickelsen
Generally what we do is treat battlefield casualties as they can make it from the battlefield to us.
David Colley
Good families are generally worse than any others.
Anthony Hope
We started with us cleaning out our closet. Now we generally have to get (the art) from somewhere else.
Lois Rigdon
These kinds of trials are generally trial by documents, especially as you go up the chain of command.
Nehal Bhuta
People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.
A. Guignon
Generally, you don't see them talking about it in the same breath. It's always tough to manage growth in an area that's hot.
John Tuccillo
American citizens generally have been targeted for kidnapping and other terrorist actions.
Daniel Pearl
People generally eat in a five-mile radius of their home.
Patrick Richardson
Generally, what we've seen is a form of compartmentalization, from the top down.
Shane Coursen
This winter is the first time I am generally discouraged about economic trends in Iraq.
Michael O'hanlon
We generally have anywhere from five to 15 pets adopted each weekend.
Connie Guthrie
People are generally quite impressed with the design.
Mandy Jean Woods
I think they have been generally behind and they may be catching up at this point.
John Shelnutt
We were looking generally to diversify the firm, believing that this was a good business plan for us.
Robert Freedman
But generally this is the kind of name that, from experience, has one or very few founders.
Bryan Sykes
You're going to always have volatility in investment banking earnings. But retail generally will be more consistent.
Michael Cleary
Generally, they're in fine condition, considering what they've been through.
George Beranek
When people aren't scared, that's generally time to sell.
Mike Farrell
We don't pay benefits directly to our victims. Generally, we pay their bills.
Rob Wheeler
Generally speaking, no, I don't think most people know what it is.
Brian Schultz
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert Motherwell
Generally the community is very enthusiastic about it from the comments I've heard.
Perry Varnadoe
At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.
Steve Stanley
The world doesn't make much sense to me generally. I don't feel like I'm good at that.
Tracy Kidder
That really surprises me because generally this season we've been able to bounce back after a bad game. We've just got to get some confidence back now.
Brian Lanz
They played good defense against him, but generally he shoots the ball a lot better than that.
Bob Banning
People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
Steve Carell
If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.
Paul Busse
It's very consistent. The weather data was not reliable and generally low.
Tom Hamlin
Generally, you'll get the best prices that way.
Don George
We generally have them twice a year in the fall and the spring.
Myrle Henry
More competition in the market generally leads to better prices for consumers.
Ruth Comer
Generally where you find the top guys, you find the corporate offices relocating.
Roger Read
September will be challenging for handset makers. We are generally cautious on the group.
Mark Mckechnie
Revenues and expenses, ex-items, were generally in-line with our expectations.
Bob Mcadoo
We generally have about 60 different growers that bring pumpkins each year.
Nikki Hunt
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
It's mostly been a very friendly and generally good atmosphere.
Brian Blair
The citizens of New Orleans have been through enormous displacement and generally speaking they're bursting at the seams with anger. They're angry at a lot of things. They're angry at no one in particular and everything in general.
Phil Anthony
It is something that is generally found in Czech churches, taking its name from the city of Prague.
Mary Rankin
The administrative costs (of an employer plan) are frequently cheaper. It's generally going to cost you less money than an IRA.
Dallas Salisbury
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
Tenure of a university president is generally four to five years.
Alberto Pimentel
In any area that Sanderson Farms builds, the economy is generally improved.
Bob Billingsley
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Herbert Simon
Games generally run at 25 percent.
Frank Zaitshik
We do get generally bad writers, but the best (bad) writing is by good people.
Scott Rice
The community generally wants to get it over with - to put it behind us and move on.
Bill Powers
Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.
Hans Hofmann
Generally, people do not have much more than [$9,000, $10,000 or] $11,000 per year income.
Sally Little
Generally speaking, our thoughts are that more money is not the answer to our education problems.
Denver Merrill
There are generally more offenders living in communities than most people realize.
Katie Ford
It's generally my belief and those of others in this field of cultural studies that popular culture has a big effect on the people who consume it.
Michael Asimow
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
Richard Bach
Generally, these plants operate independently of us.
Christina Day
Generally speaking, food has to be spicier than it would be if you tasted it on the ground.
Peter Jones
Generally it's doing very well in the theaters where we have it.
Terrell Falk
Generally this time of year is clearance time in the auto business.
Jack Nerad
Sensitive approach and generally happens through agents and managers.
Michael Hirschorn
They generally attract a mixed audience of men and women.
Neal Pilson
What it's used for generally is to protect the historic buildings of a downtown street.
Jim Fisher
We have, after all, an ageing population, and dementia is generally a condition of ageing, in that the risk increases with age.
Julie Bishop
Police work is generally best left to the police, there's no question about that. But there are exceptions.
Eugene O'donnell
As the economy is generally positive, we see a pretty gradual strengthening in the Canadian dollar.
Eric Darwell
It's generally about keeping their eyes and ears out for the kids getting home.
Ellis Reyes
After disco, there really was a change. Generally, there were no more straight-up-Southern blues-rooted sounds on top of the pop charts.
Elijah Wald
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
Edward F. Halifax
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