Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is… — A J P Taylor
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. — Oliver Lodge
I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant.… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami
But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common... — Joe Biden
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an… — Aleister Crowley
Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act. — Eliphas Levi
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an… — Murray Kempton
A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create… — Charlie Munger
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that… — Abraham Lincoln
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that… — Alfred Marshall
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. — Fiona Shaw
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade. — Aesop
I had been with a good friend, had a few beers, didn't bother to eat, went down to the hotel where the party was, walked… — John Riggins
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money… — Rudy Rucker
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by… — Mary Whitehouse
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number… — David George Hogarth
The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is… — Kemmons Wilson
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly… — Daisy Ashford
I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times. — Jaejoong
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. — Mark Twain
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he… — Henry David Thoreau
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state… — Raymond Louis Wilder

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