Almost Quotes

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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. — Whitfield Diffie
I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to… — Clifton B. Cates
I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. — Mary Decker
The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we… — Amby Burfoot
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination.… — P.G. Wodehouse
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits… — Friedrich Ratzel
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well. — Robert A. Heinlein
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you… — Malcolm Muggeridge
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — John Davy
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions. — David Bach
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people… — Morrie Schwartz
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it… — C.S. Lewis
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends. — Ben Jonson
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does. — Mason Cooley
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the… — Joshua Slocum

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