Quotes About Almost Is Never Enough

#1. If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators."

"But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.

Brenda Cooper

#3. Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.

Josh Pyke

#4. Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.

Jane Austen

#5. And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of New England's founding fathers

John Irving

#6. I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

Corey Taylor

#7. We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

Susan Orlean

#8. Change is like dancing with a Gorilla - you can't stop when you are tired. You can only stop when the gorilla is ready to stop.

Stephanie Thompson

#9. That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

Lauren Miller

#10. The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Brad Warner

#11. She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was the usual things of life that filled her with silent rage; which was natural enough inasmuch as, to her vision, almost everything that was usual was inqiuitous.

Henry James

#12. You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Susanna Hoffs

#13. You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

David Maister

#14. You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble.

J.B.Alves

#15. Sometimes extraordinary things can happen on the most ordinary of days.

Julie Garwood

#16. Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

Joss Whedon

#17. In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

Gary Neville

#18. Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.

Chris Cleave

#19. Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

Seth

#20. There might have been guys with enough cajones to send over a drink. If I was hit on today maybe I just don't know it. I told my friend that I never get hit on and he's like, "You're crazy!" But as far as I know, no, I've almost never been hit on.

Mila Kunis

#21. They say you shouldn't try to be someone you're not, but what about someone you almost are?

Denise Jaden

#22. Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

David Foster Wallace

#24. What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

Wayne Wonder

#25. Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

Josa Young

#26. You and I
Again and again
Always almost
Never enough.

- A world of almosts

Ayushee Ghoshal

#27. The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

Jacques Rogge

#28. With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive
or even boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

Bobby Orr

#30. I wonder what NASA would think about me fucking with the RTG like this. They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort.

Andy Weir

#31. Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

Salma Hayek

#32. There is light suddenly everywhere, the light of your life speaking to you. What it tells you is almost the same as what happened.

Never mind that almost isn't good enough; it's all you have.

Alexander Chee

#33. I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Van Morrison