The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is the same.
They must therefore not spoil Alexander’s undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.
The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.
Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Robotics has been around forever, and it’s been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it’s easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that’s one of the things that has held back the industry.
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where the Great Mosque and the Catholic Cathedral and the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral stand almost within touching distance of each other.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.
The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we’d like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.
A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work… coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
In my own personal career, I have felt almost the most difficult thing to deal with is someone who doesn’t tell you what they are thinking.
If I go back to when Borat and Ali G. were doing it, they were more just TV, cinema, TV, cinema. Whereas I live in more of the Internet age where people like to feel like they can still touch you, and so it’s important for me not to almost box myself off.
People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.
