Scarcely Quotes

384 Scarcely quotes by 278 unique authors

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. — Barton Gellman
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of… — John James Audubon
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced… — Tom Chatfield
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a sort;… — John Updike
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My… — John Marshall
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is… — Edward McKendree Bounds
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection… — Edward Frederic Benson
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. — Thomas Arnold
He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as… — James Hogg
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou… — John James Audubon
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested… — Robert Musil
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. — Cole Younger
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required… — David Ricardo
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they… — Maria Monk
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going… — Graham Swift
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can… — Tom Hodgkinson
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass… — Elbert Hubbard
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians… — Thomas Paine
Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived… — Alexander Dumas
On a hill, on an old rugged cross, is were my Savior lay his life for me, and I often wonder, when I think that… — Glen Rambharack
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors — Voltaire
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on… — Samuel Johnson
The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those… — Isaac Asimov
Listen, dementors are among the foulest creatures to walk this earth. They feed on every good feeling, every happy memory until a person is left… — Remus Lupin
Well, what can I tell you? Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings… — Lord Of The Rings

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