Hardly Quotes

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

I hardly wear any makeup.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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.

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.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

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.

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.