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Almost Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
- There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
- What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of…
- Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the…
- My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,…
- Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,…
- I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in…
- My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after…
- Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by…
More Almost Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster