I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

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

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

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

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

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

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.

Indeed, there's scarcely a week that goes by where I don't deal with a significant, often controversial national security issue.

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

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

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.

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

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.

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?

Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.

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

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

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.

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

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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