#almost

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#being #friendly #gone #had #leap

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism. ↗

— Will McDonough

#also #circulation #due #every #i

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#glacier #glaciers #gone #national #national park

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#cases #enemy #much #now #others

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#almost #back #beginning #efficiency #factor

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#answered #asking #been #during #fifty

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#always #corner #exhausting #him #life