Quotes with almost

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  • Seneca He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bubba Smith Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Ronald Laing Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
    The politics of experience
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Agnes Macphail I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Alan Greenspan I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.218
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Sting I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Al Sharpton I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Emily Brontë I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat!
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XXXIII
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Burgess Owens I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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