Generalities Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. - Alfred North Whitehead

We didn't fly into generalities. We really tried to touch ground... Our position is that we don't negotiate under fire but we talk about how to stop fire. - Shimon Peres

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. - E. T. Bell

The nightmare of all art, as well as of all politics, is generalities. - Peter Sellars

The lip service for peace and the generalities don't make peace. Peacemaking requires details. - Saeb Erekat

That's an after-the-season thing. We've talked in generalities before. There's no point in talking about it now. The information is not available to him or to any of our other 12 players. - Jamie Dixon

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. - Alphonse De Lamartine

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. - Paul Lynde

Perhaps some are more comfortable thinking of war only in generalities. But the cost of war is not just political and economic it is personal. And it is that terrible personal cost that causes us to memorialize and honor each hero's sacrifice. - Neil Samuels