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Quotes About Almost

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
~ Terry Pratchett
I am improbable, am I not? Almost, but not quite, impossible.
~ Theodora Goss
Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.
~ Karen Marie Moning
On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.
~ Bethany Mota
I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
~ Whit Stillman
Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.
~ Rae Hachton, Frankie's Monster
The Western powers recognized this, and seemed prepared to endorse almost any injustice as long as it held communism at bay.
~ Keith Lowe
I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.
~ Suzanne Collins
Horseshoes and hand grenades.
~ Neal Shusterman
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind
~ Charles Bukowski
I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.
~ George R.R. Martin
A people.. who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything
~ George Washington
A couple of inches up and right and he would have been a soprano.
~ J.R. Ward
elusiveness brought to so high a level it becomes almost invisible.
~ Tana French
That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed. "Yes," said one of the Hundreders, "it's as if he'd never heard of foreshadowing.
~ Neal Stephenson
Elsewhere, on the contrary, the frantic desire for the Almost Real arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories; the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth. 
~ Umberto Eco
Boss, please!" Winnie was almost crying, too. "Let me die in peace," Keller said, although she didn't realize she was saying it aloud until she heard the words. Then she added, "Don't you cry, Winfrith. You did a good job." "Boss, you're not dying! The blue fire did something - it healed us. We're all okay. But it's almost midnight!
~ L.J. Smith
Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.
~ Laini Taylor
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.
~ Andre Aciman
'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
~ Isaac Hanson
I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.
~ Derek Walcott
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
~ Grover Cleveland