Hardly Quotes

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To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out… — Lesslie Newbigin
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann
I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was… — Breaux Greer
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire. — Ogden Nash
A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut. — Wes Smith
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil… — Lee R. Raymond
I can hardly understand the Australian accent. — Joey Santiago
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much… — William Lipscomb
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our… — Isak Dinesen
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than… — Richard John Neuhaus
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh,… — Michael Tsarion
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have… — C.S. Lewis
People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground! — David Berg
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. — Charles Francis Richter
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest. — Harold MacMillan
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could… — James Russell Lowell
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human… — Eric Hoffer
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul… — Mark Twain
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice… — George Santayana

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