Almost Quotes - page 2

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. (Thomas Fuller)
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. View quote
Graham Greene
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. View quote
Colin Powell
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. View quote
Theodor Adorno
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. View quote
Henri Michaux
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. View quote
Alexander Pope
The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully. View quote
Wallace Stevens
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. (John Desmond Bernal)
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. View quote
Josh McDowell
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. View quote
Emil Cioran
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. View quote
Lady Gaga
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. View quote
Colette
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. View quote
George Santayana
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. (Jean de La Bruyère)
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Every physician almost hath his favorite disease. View quote
Henry Fielding