Barely Alive Quotes

#1. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Taylor

#3. I just staunchly bought one frame during a two-for-one frame sale and barely left the store alive.

Dana Gould

#4. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Bobby Ray Inman

#5. When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Howard Nemerov

#6. pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#7. A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

Lou Gramm

#8. I've had four serious boyfriends in my life."
He growled.
"What is wrong?"
"Love is forever." He gave her a disgusted look. "You have no idea what real love is, Joy.

Laurann Dohner

#9. We can never reflect too much on God's grace.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#10. Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Phyllis Schlafly

#11. instead of becoming a strong and ardent and generous Catholic, I simply slipped into the ranks of the millions of tepid and dull and sluggish and indifferent Christians who live a life that is still half animal, and who barely put up a struggle to keep the breath of grace alive in their souls.

Thomas Merton

#12. I can barely get a guy in my own town to realize I'm alive. Well that's not true, he knows I'm alive. He just doesn't t look at me the way I want him to. Like, well like the way Grant is looking at me right now. His eyes all gentle and questioning, his lips slightly parted.

Brynna Gabrielson

#13. It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ron Wood

#14. This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

Peter Rollins

#15. Paige is at the aerie." Raffe gives me a don't-you-dare look. "You mean the place where I barely got you out alive because they were killing every human they could get their hands on?" "Thank you, by the way.

Susan Ee

#16. If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Shay Mitchell

#17. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

George Clinton

#18. The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Dan Quayle

#19. Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.

Alma Katsu

#20. Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp