Quotes with it-almost

Quotes 361 till 380 of 433.

  • Bonnie Blair This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Santayana To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Al Goldstein To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Alice Walker To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Auguste Rodin True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Bill Pullman Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Cat Stevens Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Juliene Berk We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Vauvenargues We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Lewis Lehr We can afford almost any mistake once.
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