Almost
My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I’m almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I’ve spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Almost, God, Minute, Night, Response, Twenty
He rained upon it curses from God and High Heaven, and withered it with a heat of invective that savoured of a medieval excommunication of the Catholic Church. He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Almost, Heat, Heaven, High, Sublime
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Almost, Animals, Painful, Scarcely, Seeming
So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they’re movies made for kids. It’s as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Almost, Alone, Ambitious, America, Emotion, Emotional Attachment, Emotional distance, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Let go, Life, Meaningful, Movies, Moving forward, Necessary, Necessities
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Topics: Almighty Lord., Almost, Bear, Live performances, Lived, Regular, Regular Practice, Regularity
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Author: Robert Louis StevensonTopics: Almost, Famous, Friend, Indispensable, Long, Love, Loved
We are in this almost on our own, there is a lot being said and spoken, but very little on the ground.
Author: Haider al-AbadiTopics: Almost, Famous, Meaningful, Spoken
Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Almost, Alone, Aware, Awareness, Body, Body-Shape, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Stomach, Times, Times of difficulty
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Almost, Famous, Great, Great design, leader, Leadership, Life, Meaningful, Simple, Simple life style
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Almost, Children, Children privacy, Fail, Famous, Feelings, Imitate, Imitation, Life, Meaningful, Tell, Telling
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Author: Ray BradburyTopics: Almost, Book, Dead, Famous, Feelings, Friends, Meaningful
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Almost, Famous, Meaningful, Sensuality, Visions
I just turned 40, and it’s weird to think that I’ve been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn’t do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing ‘Young and the Restless.’ Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Actors, Again, Almost, Around, Child, Famous, Life, Meaningful, School, Think, Throughout, Turned, Weird, Young
I almost sabotaged my career. ‘The Fast and the Furious’ didn’t let me, and I’m grateful now. That franchise gave me the opportunity.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Almost, Career, Famous, Grateful, Meaningful, Opportunity
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Acceptance, Almost, Alone, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Learning from Mistakes, Leave, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, People, Wonderful
Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, “Lord, this is Your battle.”
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Allowed, Almighty Lord., Almost, Battle, Lesson, Letting, Lord God, Relatively, Relaxation, Sense of faith, Sense of freedom
It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Almost, Believing, Famous, History, Hope, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Task, Woman's
Chastity—the most unnatural of the sexual perversions
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Almost, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Sexuality
Most arguments are useless
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Almost, Always, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Useless, Version
The most useful pot is the pot which has been broken
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Almost, Broken, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Possibility, Potential, Useful