Almost Quotes

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

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.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.