There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.
It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!
It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, i...
He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft s...
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy no...
As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a c...
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Nearly all Italian officers speak French.
I start nearly every day with a workout.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
