Quotes About Almost

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

Almost, not quite,I wish you all a long and happy Life

This little girl's grown up by now, she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might-have-been, and I did not want to leave him any more than I did my family.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.

Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all

This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

For one splinter of time their eyes met in something that was almost a salute, a parting salute between two who might have been friends.

We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves to supply that need, and success is almost certain.

Jane resented him for it, but she didn't blame him. Her mother inspired in almost everyone who encountered her a vicious desire for escape.

But this time she declined my proffered aid in so kind and friendly a manner that I almost forgave her.

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all the undertakings of life; but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough.

Upon my word, sir,'said he, 'I've hardly looked at her. It is not a matter of looks now, as it used to be. It has got beyond that. It is not that I am indifferent to seeing a pretty face, or that I have no longer an opinion of my own about a woman's figure. But there grows up, I think, a longing which almost kills that consideration.

I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential.