Nearly Always Quotes

94 quotes by 85 authors

• It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically… — John Boorman
• Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar
• [Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important… — Richard Willstatter
• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. — Rebecca West
• When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. — Oscar Wilde
• A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… — Ben Hecht
• An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested,… — Charles Dudley Warner
• Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear… — Jeff Cooper
• Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock
• Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one. — Oswald Chambers
• The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. — Raymond Chandler
• Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so… — Brian D. McLaren
• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. — Francesca Annis
• Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• 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
• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E T A Hoffmann
• 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

Who Wrote These Nearly Always Quotes

85 authors contributed a total of 94 Nearly Always Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Nearly Always Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 2 Nearly Always Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• 2 Nearly Always Quotes by Bill Bryson
• 2 Nearly Always Quotes by Joseph Sobran
• 2 Nearly Always Quotes by Francesca Annis
• 2 Nearly Always Quotes by John Steinbeck
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Julius Caesar
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Eduard Hanslick
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Richard Willstatter
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Gene Sharp
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Rebecca West
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Agatha Christie
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by John Quiggin
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Jan Karon
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Ben Hecht
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by David Bronstein
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Emma Donoghue
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Peter J. Gomes
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Meg Rosoff
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Charles Dudley Warner
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Michael Dirda
• 1 Nearly Always Quote by Carl Sandburg