Almost Quotes
7832 quotes by 4728 authors
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out.…
— George Matthew Adams
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Almost anything is possible with time
— Jane Austen
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Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He…
— Kirk Douglas
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He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and…
— John Lennon
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Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the…
— Harun Yahya
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
— Warren Buffett
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the…
— Hal Porter
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Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household…
— Eva Cox
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I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to…
— Paul Hasluck
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She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our…
— Gough Whitlam
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The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped…
— Frank Macfarlane Burnet
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If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
— Lena Dunham
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The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or…
— Wendell Berry
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First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
— James Dobson
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
— Joseph J. Romm
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost…
— John Hurt
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