Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of… — Marianne Thieme
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put… — Gottlob Frege
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and… — Vincent de Paul
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had… — Marie Corelli
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice… — Henri Lebesgue
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. — Howard Hodgkin
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a… — Plato
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have… — Henry David Thoreau
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year. — Tayari Jones
If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the… — George W. Bush
One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate — Kazuo Ishiguro
The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for. — George Washington
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little… — Paul Weller
What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto. — Michael Ondaatje
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin
I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often. — Rachel Caine
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an… — Igor Stravinsky
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never… — Albert Camus
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it… — Georg Simmel
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept… — Otto Dix
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell… — Henry David Thoreau
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system of… — Kenny Smith

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