Barely Quotes

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I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — Julia Child
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST. — Richard Brautigan
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been. — Jerry Garcia
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips â€“ it means nothing or everything. After heâ€™s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me.… — Melissa Bank
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,… — P.J. O'Rourke
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at… — David Foster Wallace
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old,… — Orson Scott Card
Did you see that dress?â€ "I saw the dress.â€ "Did you like it?â€ He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going… — Richelle Mead
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of… — Cynthia Leitich Smith
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again. — Erin Hunter
Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I donâ€™t have any right. None at all. Weâ€™re barely a couple. Weâ€™re not even sleeping together.… — Jennifer Rardin
How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? — Nicole Krauss
and yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost hear bone's voice.… — Jeaniene Frost
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… — Bill Bryson

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