Quotes of: Scarcely Keyword

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

Ellen Tauscher

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

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

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

Isaac Barrow

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Charles Babbage

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.

Simon Newcomb

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

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

Virginia Woolf

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Journey Through Europe

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

Kushiel's Avatar

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

On the Steel Breeze

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

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Smarra: & Trilby

Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn’t want to pass that thunderhead on her way out.

Poisoned Apple

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Poor Richard's Almanack

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

Wilhelm Tell

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.

Thorin

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

Mary Shelley

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain