#almost

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#almost #anything #being #cage #compounds

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#anyone #attacked #ever #him #i

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#bank #bankers #fell #i #lend

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#because #everyone #everything #fast #flies

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#dispositions #efficacy #except #happy #instruction

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#anything #everything #finds #hardly #intelligent

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#good #good script #more #script #terrible

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#children #father #growing #growing up #involved

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#fact #i #innings #pitched #proud