Nearly Quotes

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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. — Edward Abbey
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be… — Douglas Adams
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the… — George Washington
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the… — Thomas Paine
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. — John Irving
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,… — Thucydides
I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you're open to it. — Hillary Clinton
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore… — Poul Anderson
The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is. — Kent Beck
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. — Bob Filner
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless. — Larry Niven
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to… — Mary Augusta Ward
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are… — Anthony Hecht
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E T A Hoffmann
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play… — William Kurelek
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always… — E. M. Forster
I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard… — Emily Blunt
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries. — Saint John Chrysostom
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. — Louise Colet

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