#scarcely

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

— Victor Hugo

#contrast #even #everything #little #need

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

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. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#i #killing #living #myself #scarcely

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

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

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#found #litigation #man #never #scarcely

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

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

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#brethren #god #i #i do #kill

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

#curtain #fall #find #leaves #play