Almost Quotes
7832 quotes by 4728 authors
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It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness;…
— Caryll Houselander
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Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of…
— Jeff Cooper
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There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful,…
— Unknown Author
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which…
— James Madison
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Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
— Donald Hall
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more…
— E. M. Forster
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When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.
— Muhammad Yunus
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
— Marlene Dietrich
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How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You…
— David Suzuki
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a…
— Lester R. Brown
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them;…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but…
— Ian Cohen
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I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless…
— Peter Cundall
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both…
— Paul Halmos
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The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have…
— Wendell Berry
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,…
— Edmund Burke
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It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less…
— Steven Weinberg
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