#hardly

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

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#bite #dogs #ever #hardly #laughing

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#ate #came #cars #could #country

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#bad #bad luck #had #hardly #haven

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#buy #cab #cookies #did #furniture

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

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #earned #exerted #hardly #his

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

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#communicate #different #existence #hardly #intrinsic

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

— Herman Melville

#asleep #critics #five #hardly #several