You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.
Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author. . . But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took no notice. I pulled out my revolver and very nearly shot at them, but I thought it wouldn't do any good, as they all had their backs to me so would have thought that anyone hit was hit by a German bullet. If I ran after them my men might think I was running away. So I took my men on!
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99. 999% empty space.
I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.
Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style until the age of nearly 30, so rather late. The disciplined immersion in unconscious psychical material is something he also learned only after long years of practice. When he succeeded in doing it for the first time - in the story The Judgement - it put him in a euphoric mood. He wanted to experience this again and again; the act of creation made him happy and proud.