Almost Quotes

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.