#almost

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

#black #despair #enough #entirely #essential

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure. ↗

— Brian Walker

#brown #charlie #charlie brown #figure #tragic

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#around #believe #canada #feet #go

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#almost #doing #fall #inevitably #into

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#amount #care #country #cover #doctor

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#barack #barack obama #clearest #current #cut

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#anybody #cover #creed #down #guitar

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#am #becoming #best #comes #competitor

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#boss #father #like #out #player

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#almost #amazing #did #divorce #divorced