#almost

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aesthetic #almost #always #architecture #aspect

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#bible #come #everything #look #maybe

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#behind #coin #days #flip #going

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#almost #hesitate #hire #i #impossible

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#been #diet #eating #exercised #family

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#agnostics #almost #atheists #believe #destroy

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#back #british #british government #cared #centuries

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

#almost #armed #because #being #every