Almost Quotes - page 3

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. (Albert Camus)
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. View quote
Grover Cleveland
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. View quote
James A. Michener
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. View quote
Albert Pike
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. View quote
H. G. Wells
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The age of the book is almost gone. View quote
George Steiner
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. (William Wordsworth)
The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. View quote
Will Rogers
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. View quote
André Gide
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. View quote
Bill Gates
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. View quote
Joseph Joubert
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. (Salvador Dalí)
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough