#nearly

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. ↗

— Steve Israel

#borders #currently #immigrants #know #live

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#covers #ends #equivalent #good #habitual

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#any #best #contestants #given #jeopardy

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#case #demands #dramatic #every #exertion

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. ↗

— David Johansen

#bought #canvas #compelled #creatively #day

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#been #dealing #i #nearly #reactive

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#great #great strain #nearly #remembered #strain

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#being #being pretty #i #mean #movies

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#definitely #gay #had #i #knew