Almost Quotes
7832 Almost quotes by 4728 unique authors
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost…
— E. V. Lucas
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
— Walter Lippmann
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
— Bertrand Russell
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they…
— Russell Lynes
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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or…
— Samuel Smiles
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
— Ernest Renan
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
— Maya Lin
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ÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have…
— Werner Herzog
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
— Ralph Barton Perry
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How…
— Candace Cameron
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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
— Eric Hoffer
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long…
— Robbie Williams
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You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on…
— Russell Hoban
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
— Frederick Douglass
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
— George Eliot
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