Scarcely Quotes

(in 1915) Motion pictures is still in its infancy. In the next few years I expect to see so many improvements that you could then scarcely recognize the comedy of the present day.

The French Forces of the Interior, who have scarcely enough to help themselves, try to help their wounded Spanish comrades in arms.

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.

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.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Certainly it`s not just a visual experience - it`s an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.

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.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man`s lawful prey.

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

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

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.

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

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

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

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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.

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

Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.