Almost Quotes - page 6

It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,for the places and people you're lucky you're not. (Dr. Seuss)
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. View quote
E. E. Cummings
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. View quote
Don DeLillo
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children. View quote
Benjamin Spock
I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. View quote
Michael Chabon
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. View quote
Irwin Shaw
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. View quote
Isaac Asimov
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Custom is almost second nature. View quote
Plutarch
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. View quote
Douglas Adams
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. View quote
Heinrich Heine
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. View quote
John Henry Newman
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture. View quote
Martha Graham
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. View quote
George Mason
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. View quote
Eliza Farnham
The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,- And almost as delightful. View quote
Frederick Locker-Lampson
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. (Thomas Love Peacock)
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. View quote
Dave Eggers
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. View quote
Gottlob Frege