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The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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.
Indeed, there's scarcely a week that goes by where I don't deal with a significant, often controversial national security issue.
Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.
There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
