#hardly

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#energy #enough #ethical #hardly #honor

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#back #bigger #could #had #happening

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#hardly #instinct #less #strong #than

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

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

— Plato

#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I? ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#hardly #hero #i #now #parts