58 Scarcely Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. E. B. White

Fall Saw Critic Find Scarcely He Leaves Review Curtain Play Starting

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. Edmund White

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself. Edmund White

The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, and others. Europe and Japan scarcely contributed. Edward Conard

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. Edward Everett

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. Gordon W. Allport

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

Thoughts Scarcely Safe Make Them Choice Your Express Ever

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. James Hogg

Life Anxiety Old Sheep Year Duty Scarcely Never Had He Never Forget Knew Soon Learned Year-Old His Discovered Forget Different Little Turned Then Eagerness Herding

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease. Jane Hawking

Saying Me Old Coffee Rare Met Old Friends Scarcely London Some Horrible About Having Hospital Had He Terrible Gosh Diagnosed Were Been Tests Motor Friends Disease Form Then Saturday

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. Jean Rostand

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. John James Audubon

Needs Think Waters Must Would Hurricane Scarcely Laying Never Idea Reader Dry Terrific Content Witnessed Quench South Quite Form Grandeur Land Persons Sweep Who Waste Thirst

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. John James Audubon

Man Better Living Birds Our Scarcely Habits Scholar Know Knows Am Than Manage Scribble Meantime Tolerable English Aware Letter

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts. John Marshall

Education Time Nature Man Father September Virginia Possessed Gifts Scarcely Born Had Counties County Limited Been Very Improved Any Frontier Fortune Who Whom Her Received

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. Joshua Chamberlain

I scarcely talk to reporters at all. Leon Russell

Scarcely Talk Reporters

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! Maria Monk

The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame. Michelle Alexander

Great Eyes People Progress Wealth Power Odds Back Defied Though Has-Been Obama Scarcely Seems Great Power Like Been Oprah Oprah Winfrey Clock Fame Fixed America Achieved Anyone Barack Barack Obama Turned Racial Notice Who

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. Nelson A. Miles

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory. Niels Bohr

Knowledge Problem World Picture Our Relativity Those Scarcely Finish General Given Absorb Quantum Scientific Occurred Been Same Which While Aspects Theory Consciousness Extent

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia. Richard Flanagan

Art Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Thousands Scarcely Some Scattered Given Area Mysterious Through Remote Rock Australia Germany Than Northwest Title Inappropriate English Paintings Enigma Larger

There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books. Rod Lurie

Silence Thomas Books Harris Month Top Scarcely New Around Times America York List New York New York Times Lambs Novel

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. Seth Shostak

Life World Diversity Rich Scarcely Mars Habitable Sport Venus Any Currently Might Planets Requirement Plate

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