#almost

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#amplification #being #high #human #human being

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. ↗

— Scott Turow

#death #go #love #often #shakespeare

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#anything #crises #dress #fashion #hem

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk. ↗

— Sally Field

#caucasian #diagnosed #genetic #history #i

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#become #children #invariably #treated #who

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#almost #certainly #distinguished #elderly #impossible

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#certainly #distinguished #elderly #impossible #possible