Quotes with it-almost

Quotes 401 till 420 of 433.

  • Boris Spassky When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Beth Ditto When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ernest Renan When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Bliss Carman When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Mohsin Hamid When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Cardinal de Retz Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Eliot Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lewis Carroll With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Brendon Urie With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Florence Nightingale Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Midge Decter Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
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  • Alcee Hastings Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Mark Caine You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Captain Beefheart 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.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Dale Carnegie You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bernard Berenson You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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