Barely Quotes

694 quotes by 568 authors

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much. — Paul Auster
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
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
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. — Margaret Cho
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
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
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen
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
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
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
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
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
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft

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