#hardly

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

#catholics #chiefly #church #consider #consisting

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#animal #anymore #been #cross #dare

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality. ↗

— Eva Green

#ever #go #hardly #i #most

Sex is hardly ever just about sex. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ever #hardly #just #sex

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

— Marquis de Sade

#expense #hardly #liberty #order #social

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#after #been #changes #court #did

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#could #hardly #i #suitcase #thick

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#hardly #i #i can #plays #should

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#dreadfully #hardly #knows #managed #whom

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education