Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "One could almost tolerate the thing, if it were not for the praise of it."

• We Were the Sun's Chosen Ones
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• You were the one beam of light in my life; I responded by putting on sunglasses.
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• And I could hear him call to me, as if the world went quiet for that one distinct moment
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• The house went one way, I ran another, and I could SWEAR I heard the old bat laughing through the walls
• C'Etait Toi (You Were the One)
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• The most dangerous vampires were the ones who were bad at math
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• if tables could express gratitude, this one did
• I could have been one of a two
• if you buy into the wizard's bullshit, soon you're all standing waist-deep in things you didn't even know could exist and no one has any clue how to stop him
• As if either one of us were happy
• if I could play god there'd be one less child abuser
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• Oh, that it were so simple. That I could just utter those words.
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
• One day we realized we were going to need a bigger car
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• we're the only ones to turn to when your castles turn to sand
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• One must trust in the law, and keep within the heart the knowledge that the law of this world is the same right and just law that governed us when we were merely stars.
• We're one, but we're not the same
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• we're part of something bigger than any one of us. i just feel lucky to have been chosen.
• We're not trying to fool one another, honestly. We're trying to fool ourselves. Please forgive us.
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• How one man could control the Senate
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• The stories I could tell you, if you only were here to hear
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• Almost Blue
• almost
• I think I know that I am almost always afraid.
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• Almost Heaven
• almost everywhere
• "Beautiful" is almost as misused as "love"
• She breaks hearts almost as often as she breaks the speed of sound
• almost always
• Ack! Summer is almost over and I forgot to shave the cat!
• I almost did it
• Almost everything you need to know about trail riding
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• almost all
• Almost Famous
• almost (user)
• water moves, beneath the ice. now is almost time -
• Sympathy tokens, breast cancer and why I almost killed a pacifist
• The Thanksgiving Curse, or, how we keep almost getting killed.
• The Tornado, or, how we almost all got killed.
• Almost Free Software
• I almost killed Tony Blackburn
• English: a language with (almost) no negative verbs
• Tonight I Almost Died
• Almost killed by an Elephant
• It's almost like you're real
• Almost Ready to Run
• Almost Too Much
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• When Night is Almost Done
• Signs that a television show is almost dead
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• What almost always happens after you fall in love
• There is almost no need for the word 'get'
• Almost Live
• I almost had to wait
• Almost!
• We exchange stories of almosts, of near deaths, theories on fate and algorithm, probability and God
• The state that almost was
• I am clothed when other people go almost naked through the frozen cities in winter
• I almost stopped believing in shooting stars
• Almost Heroes
• The time I accidentally made napalm and almost burned down the physics lab
• Almost Like a Whale?
• Almost Transparent Blue
• Be your own fiction. After that, the story almost writes itself.
• Almost Summer
• Pages, almost completely torn
• How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: A Postmodern Adventure
• the quiet, almost reverential tones of uninterrupted footsteps
• Today, I almost got killed by Darth Vader
• It's been almost three weeks since yesterday.
• We almost lost Detroit
• All of what I almost remember
• I almost lost my son
• Almost Fat-Free Carbonara
• Almost getting cut from the team
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• How Iwhosawtheface (almost certainly) lost 100 dollars
• In which book did Nietzsche claim that almost all higher culture is based on cruelty? Don't call me stupid.
• my almost favorite pair of shoes
• Almost Oedipal
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• unfinished something, almost
• The night I almost expected
• almost alone
• Walls so thin, I can almost hear them breathing
• Almost Silly Epiphany Song
• in the morning it was almost too dead center
• Almost realizing I wasn't straight; really realizing I wasn't straight
• An almost empty room
• Almost Him
• too much is almost enough
• I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• The Introverted Thinker almost kills the dog
• almost drove past the church that day
• It could be the last time you see me alive
• could
• A little child could never kill this clean
• I wish I could upload my brain into Everything
• I wish I could cry
• I could care less
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• Because I could not Stop for Death
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Excuse me, could you explain again why you suck?
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• The best kind of bartender
• I wish I could invent shit
• I'm scared to death of what havoc he could wreak in my life
• The best phone call I could have made tonight
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday
• Could you spare some change or maybe just a smile?
• Could We Start Again, Please?
• Stupidest thing you've coded just to see if you could
• The Little Engine that Could
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• i think i could love you
• I wish I could sleep on my back
• This could take all night
• I didn't think that the air could scream in resistance until you approached me
• If you could reset your life back 10 years, would you?
• Nothing could be further from the truth
• If I could do it all over again
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• We could all be blind
• I could keep my sexuality private
• I could eat a horse
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes
• Sometimes I wish I could just not care
• I could not fire
• If you could see me cry
• I could taste the air
• Screaming Bullet of Compact Imported Death, or: How I Found Out My Mazda Protege Could Go 130mph
• If you could read my mind
• we could lie and lie
• I wish I had the magic words that could take pain away
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• How could this happen?
• It was all I could do not to cry
• Brother could you spare some karma?
• The girl who could cry flowers (a parable)
• Could I Have Been?
• It was the least I could do
• I could sleep now
• My preconceived view of perfection could not accommodate her.
• What could you possibly tell Hostess?
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her as a firework
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her
• A remembrance day I wish I could forget
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• we could get lost in the fall
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• I could hear her thoughts
• Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
• You said you could hear the galaxy
• Suspended in wonder at a world I could never understand
• If I could be someone
• When Night's Black Mantle could Most Darkness Prove
• In the darkness, where we could barely see
• In the end, he could quiet his mind only by dying

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