Almost Quotes - page 4

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. (Charles Bukowski)
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. View quote
Rene Magritte
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. View quote
Winston Churchill
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. View quote
C. S. Lewis
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. View quote
Christopher Morley
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. View quote
John Mott
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. View quote
Langston Hughes
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again. (David Dinkins)
Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. View quote
Yves Tanguy
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. View quote
Iris Chang
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. (J. G. Ballard)
Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet. View quote
Louis C.K.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.[16]. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. View quote
Richard Burton
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug