Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know. — Wendell Berry
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious… — Boyd K. Packer
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.… — Haruki Murakami
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply… — J D Salinger
We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that… — Joseph Conrad
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death… — John Updike
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to… — Charles Bukowski
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in… — Terry Pratchett
I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day,… — Gary D. Schmidt
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,… — C.S. Lewis
I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least… — J D Salinger
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. — Michel de Montaigne
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was… — Ian Mcewan
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to… — Charles Darwin
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking… — Patrick Rothfuss
Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least… — Lewis Carroll
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be… — Norton Juster
I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with… — Mary Hoffman
Hardly anyone in the world is an American — Kurt Vonnegut
that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep — Jeffrey Eugenides
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my… — Aleister Crowley
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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