Almost Quotes

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without… — Mary Astell
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost… — Chinua Achebe
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her… — Jane Austen
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It… — Paul Auster
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of… — Charles Babbage
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. — Irving Babbitt
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it… — Michelle Bachelet
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious… — Roger Bacon
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's… — Erykah Badu
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,… — Russell Baker
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. — Stephen Baldwin

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