Almost Quotes

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.