Almost Quotes

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.