Almost Quotes

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. — Samuel Insull
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. — Bob Weir
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the… — Lucas Malet
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless. — Odell Shepard
The line has almost become a work of art in itself. — Theo van Doesburg
One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon… — Paul Levinson
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about...… — Richey Edwards
Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way… — Unknown Author
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. — Marshall Ganz
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are… — A. V. Dicey
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Unknown Author
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking… — Paul Halmos
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained. — Unknown Author
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. — William Buckland
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes

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