Barely Quotes
694 quotes by 568 authors
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
— Paul Auster
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!
— Lewis Black
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my…
— Mary J. Blige
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Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality…
— Jo Brand
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a…
— Bill Bryson
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I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's…
— Thomas Carper
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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so…
— Margaret Cho
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
— Margaret Cho
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
— Hillary Clinton
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
— Brian Clough
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could…
— Leonard Cohen
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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab…
— Eric Alterman
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in…
— Thomas Aquinas
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
— Marcel Proust
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I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely…
— Maria Echaveste
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
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