Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself. — James Howell
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.… — Terry Pratchett
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all.… — Chogyam Trungpa
When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have… — Rumer Godden
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be… — Pierre Bonnard
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover. — Catherine Deneuve
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated… — Errol Morris
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of… — Walter J. Phillips
My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had… — Les Miles
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders… — Kim Il-sung
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart… — Gifford Pinchot
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and… — Theodore Roosevelt
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.… — Walter Cronkite
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts... — Saint Basil
Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly… — Jawaharlal Nehru

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