In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Because hardly anyone has seen ‘Aaranya Kaandam,’ it’s like a mystical Yeti

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good”.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The wealth of a country is its working people.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It’s still possible to love one’s neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I’d do is join a union

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God’s Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient – at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter – a girl brought up with the utmost care – to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

He who would sacrifice his life for others has hardly time to reserve for himself a place in the sun.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.