All Quotes

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Almost everybody embraces life.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
‐‐ Leon Kass

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
‐‐ Bill Gurley

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
‐‐ Nate Silver

Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

Almost everyone wears rubber on their feet these days, but there was a time when it was considered cheap. Luxury shoes had leather soles, which were rigid and heavy.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
‐‐ John Katzman

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
‐‐ Neil Strauss

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.
‐‐ Jim Crace

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
‐‐ John Eisenhower

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.
‐‐ Thuy Trang

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
‐‐ Buddy Rich

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Almost everything is like a machine.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
‐‐ T Bone Burnett

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.
‐‐ Julius Genachowski

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
‐‐ Grace Napolitano

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.
‐‐ Jimmy Kimmel

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
‐‐ Farnaz Fassihi

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
‐‐ Robert Burton

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
‐‐ Aaron Siskind

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.
‐‐ Hubert Burda

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
‐‐ Bob Parsons

Almost one in three Americans has had some contact with the criminal justice system. When you reach that saturation point, people begin to understand, in a very visceral way, the difficulties of reentry.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey