In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the 24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older.
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.
I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
There are strange friendships: two friends are almost ready to eat each other, they live like that all their lives, and yet they cannot part.
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
