Quotes about Scarcely

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Votes: 4

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. Votes: 4

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. Votes: 4

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. Votes: 3

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. Votes: 3

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. Votes: 3

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained Votes: 3

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed. Votes: 3

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel Votes: 3

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior Votes: 3

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere. Votes: 3

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. Votes: 3

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself. Votes: 3

In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved. Votes: 3

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun. Votes: 3

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Votes: 2

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Votes: 2

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. Votes: 2

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. Votes: 2

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Votes: 2

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Votes: 2

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. Votes: 2

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. Votes: 2

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Votes: 2

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. Votes: 2

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. Votes: 2

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Votes: 2

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. Votes: 2

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. Votes: 2

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. Votes: 2

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. Votes: 2

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. Votes: 2

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. Votes: 2

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Votes: 2

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. Votes: 2

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. Votes: 2

Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. Votes: 2

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. Votes: 2

I'm scarcely an enfant! Votes: 0

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented... Votes: 0

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. Votes: 0

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. Votes: 0

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility. Votes: 0

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. Votes: 0

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Votes: 0

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. Votes: 0

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment. Votes: 0

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. Votes: 0

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. Votes: 0

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. Votes: 0

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. Votes: 0

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. Votes: 0

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Votes: 0

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. Votes: 0

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Votes: 0

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. Votes: 0

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. Votes: 0

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. Votes: 0

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. Votes: 0

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. Votes: 0

Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself Votes: 0

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. Votes: 0

Miss you,” he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound. Votes: 0

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Votes: 0

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. Votes: 0

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. Votes: 0

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. Votes: 0

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. Votes: 0

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Votes: 0

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? Votes: 0

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Votes: 0

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. Votes: 0

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Votes: 0

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Votes: 0

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable. Votes: 0

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. Votes: 0

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. Votes: 0

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions. Votes: 0

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. Votes: 0

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. Votes: 0

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Votes: 0

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. Votes: 0

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. Votes: 0

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. Votes: 0

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. Votes: 0

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. Votes: 0

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Votes: 0

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it! Votes: 0

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Votes: 0

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. Votes: 0

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. Votes: 0

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. Votes: 0

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. Votes: 0

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. Votes: 0

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Votes: 0

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. Votes: 0

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Votes: 0

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. Votes: 0

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong. Votes: 0

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. Votes: 0

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. Votes: 0

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. Votes: 0

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. Votes: 0

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. Votes: 0

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. Votes: 0

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it Votes: 0

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. Votes: 0

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. Votes: 0

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. Votes: 0

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend. Votes: 0

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. Votes: 0

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. Votes: 0

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies. Votes: 0

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. Votes: 0

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. Votes: 0

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. Votes: 0

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. Votes: 0

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here. Votes: 0

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull. Votes: 0

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. Votes: 0

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God Votes: 0

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Votes: 0

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. Votes: 0

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. Votes: 0

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. Votes: 0

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. Votes: 0

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Votes: 0

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. Votes: 0

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Votes: 0

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. Votes: 0

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. Votes: 0

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. Votes: 0

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. Votes: 0

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. Votes: 0

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. Votes: 0

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. Votes: 0

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. Votes: 0

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. Votes: 0

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her. Votes: 0

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. Votes: 0

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. Votes: 0

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. Votes: 0

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. Votes: 0

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. Votes: 0

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. Votes: 0

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions." Votes: 0

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. Votes: 0

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Votes: 0

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now Votes: 0

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure. Votes: 0

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences. Votes: 0

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty. Votes: 0

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. Votes: 0

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. Votes: 0

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice Votes: 0

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. Votes: 0

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. Votes: 0

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. Votes: 0

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. Votes: 0

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason. Votes: 0

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. Votes: 0

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. Votes: 0

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false Votes: 0

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. Votes: 0

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. Votes: 0

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. Votes: 0

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves. Votes: 0

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers! Votes: 0

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. Votes: 0

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself. Votes: 0

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer. Votes: 0

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. Votes: 0

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.("Out Of The Deep") Votes: 0

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own. Votes: 0

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. Votes: 0

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. Votes: 0

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams. Votes: 0

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it. Votes: 0

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. Votes: 0

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting. Votes: 0

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. Votes: 0

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. Votes: 0

In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet. Votes: 0

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? Votes: 0

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. Votes: 0

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface. Votes: 0

Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet... Votes: 0

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity. Votes: 0

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what. Votes: 0

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. Votes: 0

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. Votes: 0

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes. Votes: 0

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. Votes: 0

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor Votes: 0

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do. Votes: 0

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt Votes: 0

He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him. Votes: 0

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few! Votes: 0

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work. Votes: 0

On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism. Votes: 0

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. Votes: 0

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well. Votes: 0

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. Votes: 0

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. Votes: 0

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble. Votes: 0

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. Votes: 0

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all. Votes: 0

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist. Votes: 0

Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still! Votes: 0

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope. Votes: 0

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it. Votes: 0

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy. Votes: 0

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. Votes: 0

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs. Votes: 0

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. Votes: 0

...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have. Votes: 0

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life. Votes: 0

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory. Votes: 0

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil. Votes: 0

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty. Votes: 0

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water. Votes: 0

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! Votes: 0

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all. Votes: 0

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write. Votes: 0

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. Votes: 0

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life. Votes: 0

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace. Votes: 0

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. Votes: 0

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance. Votes: 0

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. Votes: 0

True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations. Votes: 0

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another. Votes: 0

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises. Votes: 0

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. Votes: 0

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it. Votes: 0

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we've scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead. Votes: 0

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question. Votes: 0

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary. Votes: 0

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. Votes: 0

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life... Votes: 0

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. Votes: 0

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. Votes: 0

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. Votes: 0

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less. Votes: 0

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. Votes: 0

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled. Votes: 0

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it. Votes: 0

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything. Votes: 0

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all. Votes: 0

The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it. Votes: 0

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. Votes: 0

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ... Votes: 0

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. Votes: 0

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus. Votes: 0

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. Votes: 0

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Votes: 0

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. Votes: 0

Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective. Votes: 0

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering. Votes: 0

Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. Votes: 0

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances. Votes: 0

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Votes: 0

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this. Votes: 0

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem. Votes: 0

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them. Votes: 0

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements. Votes: 0

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars. Votes: 0

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less. Votes: 0

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. Votes: 0