Barely Quotes

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Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands. — Frances Wright
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. — Rumi
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little… — Bob Black
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted… — Sherman Alexie
This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain… — Pablo Neruda
It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby,… — Avril Lavigne
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. — Ani DiFranco
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti… — Mao Zedong
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally… — Viktor Schauberger
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the… — Sidney Blumenthal
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs… — Rose Tremain
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. — Ai Weiwei
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild… — Timothy Egan
Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine… — Esther Williams
Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball… — Ron Luciano
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who… — Jon Ronson
I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want… — Dakota Blue Richards
Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. — Georgie Anne Geyer
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as… — Maj Sjowall

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