Almost Always Quotes
429 Almost Always quotes by 346 unique authors
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them…
— Randy Pausch
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[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.
— Ford Madox Ford
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Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing…
— Neal Stephenson
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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
— Orson Scott Card
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your…
— Zig Ziglar
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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all…
— Alfred de Musset
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I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make…
— E. Nesbit
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
— Seth Godin
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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
— Kate DiCamillo
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Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.
— Greg Mortenson
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Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.
— Nora Roberts
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Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business…
— Jane Lindskold
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
— Neil Gaiman
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communication is such a two-edged sword for guys. On the one hand, they almost always mean what they say. Refreshing, I know. On the other…
— Jennifer Rardin
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People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
— George Eliot
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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
— Stephen King
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