nearly everything QUOTES

1 " Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. "

― Iain Pears , The Dream of Scipio

2 " We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you. "

― Alan Snow , Here Be Monsters!

3 " Do you want to live under someone else’s life? Nearly everything we get to do is because of politics. Everything else not open to us is because of the politicians. We don’t have much say already. Don’t make it we don’t even get to see "

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4 " But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no efficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions –notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant, of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful–are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table manners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements of my body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche about half-way up the social hierarchy. "

5 " But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions
away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no
efficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The fact that has got to be faced is
that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am
I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to
get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of
class-distinctions. All my notions –notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant,
of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful–are essentially middle-class
notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table
manners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements of
my body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche
about half-way up the social hierarchy. "

― George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier

6 " If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. "

― Marc Chagall

7 " The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions — notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant, of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful — are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table manners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements of my body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche about half-way up the social hierarchy. "

― George Orwell , The Road to Wigan Pier

8 " We shoot our heroes and enjoy peripeteia as a spectacle akin to sport and perhaps harshly disavowing the past protects us from the disappointment of our outsized hopes--who knows, really, but shifts in taste don't fully account for the phenomenon. At any rate, nearly everything urgent and alive becomes doo-wop down the road, at least in this country's pop culture, and along the way a somewhat self-hating irony lays waste not only to the work but to the desires it once carried. It's like we die into adulthood. "

― Charles D'Ambrosio

9 " We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand. "