Hardly Quotes

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.