#nearly

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#budget #contributing #donor #nations #nearly

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#among #duty #expressed #good #happy

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#does #every #go #hot #light

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#failure #luck #near-hits #near-misses #nearly

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#days #decades #emerges #first #first time

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. ↗

— John Bright

#i #nearly #nine #old #regular

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

#any #aware #compared #contributor #cotton

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#identity #mind #nearly #over #particular

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attempt #billion #evolved #fact #i

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#behavioral #biological #children #dads #did