Barely Quotes
694 quotes by 540 authors
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I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted…
— Anthony Trollope
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Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
— Richelle Mead
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He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there…
— Richelle Mead
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This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be…
— James Frey
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All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.
— Jillian Michaels
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That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish…
— Richelle Mead
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You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and…
— Michael Scott
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Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get…
— Cassandra Clare
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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a…
— Stephen King
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She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no…
— Michael Grant
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Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes…
— Jim Butcher
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You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped…
— Janet Evanovich
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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to…
— Mitch Albom
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Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets…
— Cassandra Clare
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You’re seventeen,†Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.
— Cassandra Clare
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
— L.A. Weatherly
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