Hardly Quotes
1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors
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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that…
— George Eliot
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I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
— Marilynne Robinson
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An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter…
— Peter Kreeft
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What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
— Gene Wolfe
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our…
— Scott Westerfeld
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A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One…
— Henry Adams
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Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,…
— Gennifer Choldenko
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his…
— James A. Michener
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Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,”…
— Cassandra Clare
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Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet,…
— Sarah Dessen
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
— Henry Hazlitt
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I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
— Jim Butcher
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The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out…
— Frederick Buechner
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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly…
— John Dewey
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Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her…
— James Patterson
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When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
— David Baldacci
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You just looked..." she said, searching for the word, "taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did alittle, but nothing…
— Sarah Dessen
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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly respond when I whisper hello Could be my soul…
— Jay Asher
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Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion…
— Jenny Downham
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