#almost

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Almost everybody embraces life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#embraces #everybody #life

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. ↗

— Eminem

#always #dream #i #i always #into

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #beautiful thing #desire #memory #miss

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#becomes #families #granted #important #important things

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs. ↗

— Artie Lange

#almost #could #get #got #honest

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#body #cell #created #creating #dies

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#bad #bit #drag #metal #plastic

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes