Almost Always Quotes

429 Almost Always quotes by 346 unique authors

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims. — David Emerald Womeldorff
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in… — Stephan Pastis
We almost always forgive those we understand. — Mikhail Lermontov
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:… — William Faulkner
Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve. — John C. Maxwell
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts. — Gloria Steinem
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited. — Robert C. Solomon
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years… — Honore de Balzac
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work.… — Felix Dennis
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's… — Adyashanti
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. — William Kittredge
For me, almost always, the answer was cake. — Diana Abu-Jaber
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed… — H. L. Mencken
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they… — Thomas Kuhn
When a really new product comes along, it's almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it. The reason is obvious. A well-known… — Al Ries
I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can… — Twyla Tharp
You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Unknown Author

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