Almost Quotes

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.