Hardly Quotes

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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single… — Edouard Manet
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption… — Herbert Croly
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a… — Gustav Mahler
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic… — Max Weber
He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man… — John Bunyan
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo,… — Luce Irigaray
Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. — Elon Musk
Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations. — Tony Abbott
We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't… — Mark Steyn
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. — Abe Fortas
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became… — Claude Chabrol
I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached… — Claude Chabrol
Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he… — R C Sproul
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but… — Catherine Asaro
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. — Ninette de Valois
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a… — John Herschel
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. — Paul D. Boyer
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being… — Humphry Davy
Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior… — Gene Simmons
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield… — Karl Abraham
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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