Almost Quotes

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

You can parody almost anything.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.