Quotes About Almost

Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.

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

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.

It was so cold I almost got married

Confession is a swimming against the stream. Now many may swim with the stream, like the dead fish, that cannot swim against the stream, with the living fish. Many may profess Christ, that cannot confess Christ; and so, notwithstanding their profession, yet are but almost Christians.

and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations

Except you. The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic