Almost Always Quotes

429 Almost Always quotes by 346 unique authors

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window. — Susan Rothenberg
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. — Rene Magritte
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
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. — Earl Nightingale
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can… — Robert Pattinson
When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost… — Sherwood Anderson
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you… — Lewis Thomas
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to… — H. L. Mencken
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away — Harold Geneen
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the… — John C. Maxwell
You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra… — Diana Athill
I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to… — Jane Fonda
I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher,… — John Malkovich
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings. — Barbara Corcoran
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. — Charles Krauthammer
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage… — Kathi Appelt
It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart — Miguel Sousa Tavares
It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush… — Peter Beinart
A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house. — Michael Ruhlman
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an… — James S.A. Corey

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