Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a… — George Eliot
So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must… — Billie Holiday
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply… — Unknown Author
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently… — Pope Pius XII
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His… — David Brainerd
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby,… — Avril Lavigne
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… — Bertrand Russell
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… — George Eliot
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no." — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting… — Mark Dvoretsky
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but… — Jill Lepore
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives… — Wilfred Burchett
River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like… — Steven Moffat
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what… — Peter Hitchens
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me — Laura Hillenbrand
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal.… — Bernard Rimland

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