My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
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.
That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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...
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. - (1772-1834)
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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.
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.
The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.
Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
