Quotes About Nearly

I was nearly in Busted.

A miss is as good as a mile.

for now, almost was good enough

and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

Some of you people just about missed it

They were up at six the following morning, November 5, and nearly everyone returned to the ship.

The prospect of default hurt the Morgan bank in London but nearly collapsed the august Barings

Special Assistant Agent in Charge Lang. He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again. Just 'Mr Lang' is fine.

Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone - as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.

By the end of 1897, Westinghouse was nearly bankrupt, and it looked as though Morgan would usurp everything that Tesla and Westinghouse had built together.

Now the song is nearly over We may never find out what it means Still there's a light I hold before me You're the measure of my dreams

Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.

When we ask leaders and improvement professionals what the most difficult aspect to making change is, they nearly always say, "Sustaining.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

Close but no cigar

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green.

I almost took the door off the car

was so happy that I almost wanted to give Andrea a hug. Almost.

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it? Almost getting something.

Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.