Hardly Quotes
1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my…
— Will Rogers
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But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ...…
— Matthew Arnold
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I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being…
— Walter Cronkite
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Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath…
— John Muir
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No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,…
— Matthew Arnold
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The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,…
— Alan Watts
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We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit,…
— George MacDonald
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I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.
— Laura Schlessinger
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The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox…
— Peter Medawar
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It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular…
— Frederick Lenz
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In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and…
— Jules Olitski
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In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.
— William Sargant
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Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay…
— Donald Laird
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The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be…
— Michael Coren
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
— Karisma Kapoor
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from…
— Wilfrid Sheed
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Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and…
— C. West Churchman
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When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
— William Hazlitt
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Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God…
— Notker Wolf
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must…
— Bill Vaughan
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