#nearly

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#corners #credible #did #elected #four

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#could #crime #down #half-way #here

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#ignorance #nearly #per

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#medications #nearly #percent #pharmaceutical #senior

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#construction #created #estimated #every #jobs

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#build #call #estate #foundation #ground

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ↗

— Heraclitus

#child #himself #man #most #nearly

'Ted' made me nearly cry. It's kind of like 'Marley and Me.' ↗

— Niall Horan

#kind #like #made #marley #me

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#community #died #kids #know #lost

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #character #give #him #man