Quotes on the topic: Almost


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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.


Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.


I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.


Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.


I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.


Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.


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


I've played almost 22 years in the major leagues, and I've never sat on the bench.


'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.


Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.


Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.


Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.


Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.


In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'


Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.


The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.


All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.


You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.


It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.