Barely Quotes

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It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was… — Pele
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy… — Agnes Repplier
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team. — Dennis Rodman
Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about. — Anthony Hopkins
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government… — H. L. Mencken
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the… — Moe Norman
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions. — Barbara Johnson
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person… — Daniel Quinn
I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his… — George MacDonald
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as… — Judith Wright
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it. — Fulton J. Sheen
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all… — Bill Bryson
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to… — William Wordsworth
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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