#almost

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

— Charles de Secondat

#always #begins #decay #deterioration #government

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. ↗

— Lisa See

#again #almost #been #certain #come

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#almost #black #ed #ed sullivan #go

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#gave #i #passion #say #totally

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. ↗

— William Shatner

#became #could #imagine #imagined #impossible

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled