Almost Quotes

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I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as… — Malcolm X
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a… — Malcolm X
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all. — Aristotle
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you… — Joseph Campbell
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.… — Simone Weil
I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have… — Kobe Bryant
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. — Benjamin Disraeli
It's almost like we have ESPN. — Magic Johnson
On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN. — Magic Johnson

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