Almost Quotes

But “almost done” is not done!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.

~ Steven Magee

At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitude. I was later to find that I had erratic low blood oxygen levels after almost a decade of high altitude work.

~ Steven Magee

If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld.

~ Steven Magee

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

~ Sunday Adelaja

Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France in the 1890’s before fizzling out in favor of Swing music – which somehow made an early appearance in the 1900’s. In another alternative timeline, the Beatles never existed and England invented popcorn and hamburgers in the 1840’s. Damn, that’s what almost happened last time again, thought Scrooby tensely, while maneuvering himself onto a stronger looking branch. Details, everything was about the details. Sometimes there was almost too much detail to keep up with.

~ Christina Engela

Love is almost never simple.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

~ Charles Bukowski

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

~ Jeff Lindsay

My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Swearing, d’Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary – except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d’Angelo couldn’t see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn’t a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter.

~ Christina Engela

...the hardest word to swallow is almost.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

~ W. Averell Harriman

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I spend almost every morning with mail.

~ Seamus Heaney

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

~ Cameron Mackintosh

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

~ James A. Baldwin

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

~ Quintilian

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

~ William Congreve

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

~ Irving Babbitt

During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.

~ Derek Jeter

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

~ André Maurois

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

~ Charles De Secondat

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

~ George Eastman

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

~ Robert Morgan

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

~ Robert Morgan

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

~ Paul Revere

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

~ Charles Kingsley