#nearly

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#develops #discouraged #every #every man #gets

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#ankles #good-looking #knees #nearly #neat

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#appear #categories #completely #continuous #every

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#armstrong #bad #been #believe #cancer

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#credits #director #driveway #how #i

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#getting #hurt #losing #me #nearly

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one. ↗

— John Elway

#always #appreciating #because #before #bowls