Almost Quotes
7832 quotes by 4909 authors
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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
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
— J. J. Abrams
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
— Dave Attell
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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
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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
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
— John James Audubon
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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
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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
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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
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
— Irving Babbitt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
— Stephen Baldwin
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