#hardly

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#any #enterprise #expectations #fails #hardly

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

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. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#becomes #central #concerns #even #exists

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#feel #hardly #humanity #i #i feel

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. ↗

— John McCarthy

#drinks #hardly #hemisphere #northern #noticed

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

— Herman Melville

#asleep #critics #five #hardly #several

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#american #blink #bug #considered #expect

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#america #artist #believe #hardly #involved