Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the… — Ray Bradbury
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be… — William Ellery Channing
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? — Jodi Picoult
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen. — W. P. Kinsella
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. — Norton Juster
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… — Tom Robbins
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. — Susanna Clarke
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. — C.S. Lewis
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means… — Albert Einstein
its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why… — Henry Rollins
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way… — Jennifer Weiner
Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me… — Philip Roth
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a… — C.S. Lewis
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one. — P.D. James
In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists… — John L. Parker Jr.
I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and… — W S Merwin
There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no… — T.C. Boyle
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and… — John Stuart Mill
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I… — Mark Twain
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing.… — Miranda July

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