Almost Quotes

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. (Mark Twain)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. View quote
Douglas Adams
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. View quote
Robert Frost
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. View quote
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. View quote
Michael Jordan
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. View quote
Paul Valéry
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. (P. G. Wodehouse)
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. View quote
André Maurois
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. View quote
Winston Churchill
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. View quote
Beatrix Potter
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. (Edward de Bono)
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. View quote
William Glasser