58 Scarcely Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Charles Dickens

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul

Black Our Distance Scarcely Over Heads Like Look Sorrows Gray

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. John Keats

Water Kick Top Would Temper Scarcely Come Am Were

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible. John Quincy Adams

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. P. T. Barnum

Down Scarcely Like Debt Person Anything

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. George Washington

Three Duty Worse Adequate Scarcely More Observation Employed Executed Discharge Person Done Whenever Persons Therein Found Two

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. Robert Burns

Welfare Poet Country Singing Honour Alive Scarcely Daughters Higher Sons Am Than Anything Which Her Enjoyment

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. Tom Robbins

Truth You Truth Is Training Dangerous Fear Guilt Young Kids Religious Scarcely Religious Right Brutal Schools Overlook Doing Educating Brains Commerce Wheels Being Children Even Right

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Emmeline Pankhurst

Otherwise Temperament Scarcely Could Had Unconscious Suppose Always Been Surroundings

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. Godfried Danneels

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding

Happiness Others Thousand Scarcely Person Tasting Capable

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP. Simon Kuznets

Measurement Welfare Nation National Defined Scarcely Income

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. Joseph Smith, Jr.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem. Alexander Graham Bell

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. Brian Ferneyhough

Success Nature Failure Sense Criteria Entering Scarcely Prevailing Only Implications Involves Questioning Where Spaces Technical Specifically Necessarily Apply

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. Dave Brubeck

Tired You Walk Beginning Stage Energy Kicks Scarcely About More Beat Piano Excitement End Up Than Forget Get Being

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. David Ricardo

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