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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. -- Carl Sandburg
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all novels are too long. -- Rose Macaulay
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ... -- Freya Stark
Nearly all Italian officers speak French. -- Hugh Dalton
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. -- Neil Gaiman
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain ... -- John Steinbeck
Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise. -- Joseph Gurney Cannon
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. -- Ninette de Valois
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. -- Victor LaValle
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews. -- Adolf Hitler
Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances. -- William J. Clinton
Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day. -- Duncan Hines
Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin. -- Charles Colson
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. -- Moliere
Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another. -- Steven J. Carroll
Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life. -- Rahm Emanuel
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. -- Jamais Cascio
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal. -- Cecile Richards
Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history. -- Brandon Sanderson
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. -- Aaron Swartz
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. -- John Irving
Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror. -- E. W. Howe
Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love. -- Eugenio Maria de Hostos
My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson. -- Steve Aoki
Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before. -- J.A. Redmerski
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. -- David Bowie
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. -- Charles Baudelaire
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. -- Arthur Erickson
Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant. -- E. W. Howe
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. -- John Boyd Orr
Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. -- Mark Twain
Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour. -- John Motson
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. -- Loretta Young
Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. -- Coventry Patmore
Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else. -- S. Truett Cathy
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. -- Frans Johansson
Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches. -- Michael Chang
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts. -- Clara Shih
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him. -- Marilyn Monroe
Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things. -- Jacob Bannon
Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven. -- Leopold Infeld
Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex. -- Dean Koontz
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now Itâ??s Time For Black America To Return The Favor -- Elbert Guillory
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. -- A. A. Milne
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun. -- Brian Eno
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. -- Robert Frost
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. -- Norman Mailer
Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world. -- Bobby Darin
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? -- Don Marquis
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -- Marc Chagall
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl. -- Kristen Bell
My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water. -- Bella Thorne
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based. -- Tyra Banks
I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years. -- Brad D. Smith
Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right. -- Bear Bryant
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. -- Lois Capps
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. -- John Boorman
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. -- William Merritt Chase
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. -- Michael K. Powell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. -- George Orwell
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. -- Sam Harris
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. -- Tony Dungy
I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. -- John Lydon
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. -- Paul Watson
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do. -- Robert Winston
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. -- Alison Gopnik
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass. -- Joe Namath
I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man. -- Nick Frost
Growth solves (nearly) all problems -- Sam Altman
Occasionally he would very nearly swear. -- Terry Pratchett
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. -- Katherine Paterson
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. -- Hyman Rickover
Misery and shame are nearly allied. -- Samuel Johnson
And her joy was nearly like sorrow. -- John Steinbeck
Accept nothing nearly right or good enough -- Henry Royce
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are today a nearly 100% banked country. -- Narendra Modi
You aren't nearly through this adventure yet. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims. -- Henning von Tresckow
We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear -- Paulo Coelho
Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing! -- Nancy Byrd Turner
I'm not nearly young enough to know everything -- Oscar Wilde
Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting. -- J. Harold Smith
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. -- Paul Auster
There nearly always is a method in madness. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I start nearly every day with a workout. -- Jesse Metcalfe
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them. -- Doug Stanhope
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.... -- Ridley Pearson
When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow. -- Stephen King
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can. -- Mark Twain
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. -- Ben Marcus
Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate. -- Ron Paul
Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed. -- Beth Moore
A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long. -- David Bowie
Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved -- Winston Churchill
Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible. -- Arnulf Rainer
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen. -- T. E. Lawrence
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business. -- Robert Jordan
The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. -- Robert M. Price
2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. -- Dennis Kucinich
I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. -- K. D. Lang
It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion. -- Kurt Cobain
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. -- William Cobbett

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