#almost

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#ago #almost #civil #civil war #even

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#always #back #blaming #crisis #financial

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#almost #draw #even #extinguish #may

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contain #desires #examined #our #reveal

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#brought #destruction #development #direction #incredible

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ↗

— John Hurt

#almost #anderson #cowboys #fit #had

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#army #been #freedom #gives #having

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#almost #began #carter #clinton #clinton administration