Top 100 Barely Quotes
#1. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#2. Love ... is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.
Colette
#3. You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the door, and all this lad needed was a stat dose of Man-the-Fuck-Up.
Cari Hunter
#4. I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!
Richard Bach
#5. The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
H.L. Mencken
#6. I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.
Chris Diamantopoulos
#7. You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical
C.K. Kelly Martin
#8. In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe not even that. Barely visible in the false moonlight. Just outlines. The kids passing a bottle back and forth, taking swigs, staggering.
Michael Grant
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.
Colin Meloy
#12. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
Rufus Sewell
#13. I never dealt with excessive body fur. But having barely made love to a tampon, my privates were truly untainted.
Maggie Young
#14. I need to walk away from you."
His nose runs up the length of mine and my eyes flutter closed. His bottom lip barely touches my top one as he whispers back, "What makes you think I'll let you, Alexa?
Belle Aurora
#15. But if you did, how would you touch me?" she asked, folding the garment neatly before placing it in an open drawer in front of her. I barely had to consider the question before my answer burst forward: "Desperately.
Christina Lauren
#16. I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.
Gisele Bundchen
#17. Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to shove her face under his t-shirt and eat whatever she found there.
Charlotte Stein
#18. Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.
N.K. Jemisin
#19. I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.
Rumi
#20. As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
David Johansen
#21. I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years
Holly Marie Combs
#22. I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.
Christopher McDougall
#23. It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."
She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been best friends with since she was barely old enough to walk?"
He shook his head. "Those are the worst.
Marissa Meyer
#24. By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.
Steve Erickson
#25. Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Brian Clough
#26. Then I reached the second building and saw the conflagration. A bonfire twenty feet high. The wreck of a Hummer, its carcass barely visible behind the veil of flame.
Joseph Finder
#27. I barely knew him but I had a feeling he might not be the dream date Talya was hoping he would be. Talya
Stacy Kravetz
#28. These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#29. I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?
Kelley Armstrong
#30. But then this morning I had to tell him goodbye. And he held me and kissed me so much, I thought I might die if he let go.
But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing.
Just barely.
Colleen Hoover
#31. It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#32. If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. I have learned that every person in the world is on the spectrum of mental illness. Many people barely register on the scale, while others have far more than they could be expected to handle.
Jenny Lawson
#34. Do you really hate being around me so much now that you'd high tail it away from me when you can barely stand?
Nicole Williams
#35. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.
Robert Thurman
#36. Harry and Ron had barely finished their third helpings of Christmas pudding when Hermione ushered them out of the Hall to finalise their plans for the evening.
J.K. Rowling
#37. I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my 'I'm in great shape' bubble.
Andrea Smith
#38. He was stunning,incredible,unlike anything she had ever seen before.Around her,the crowd noise dissipated to a dull hum,but she barely noticed.Her gaze was slowly traveling the length of him,taking in his predatory stance and powerful muscle and tanned skin.
Laura Wright
#39. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable ...
George Orwell
#40. Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.
Erica Bauermeister
#41. 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
#42. Put me down."
Of course, the man couldn't hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper.
"I said - "
"I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but I'm not putting you down.
MK McClintock
#43. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.
Joss Stirling
#44. When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton
#45. He's a gazillionaire. I barely make expenses every month. He owns mansions all over the world; I co-rent a townhouse in Alexandria with my best friend. Women fall all over themselves to go out with him. I haven't had a date since forever.
Magda Alexander
#46. Are you sure the two of you aren't married? (Bavel)
Why do you ask? (Ewan)
You can barely stand to speak to each other, and yet when the lady walks off you look as if you can already taste her. Smacks of marriage to me. (Bavel)
Kinley MacGregor
#47. When he speaks into my hair, it is barely a whisper. 'Willow, it's never too late. And there's always a way to begin again.
Autumn Doughton
#48. A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
Steve Zaffron
#49. Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world.
Harriet Lane
#51. Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
Frederick Buechner
#52. So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.
Billy Collins
#53. Barely see Mike against the other wall. " "Before you went out? " Beverly
Stephen King
#54. When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" - don't do it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#55. Nervous?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the steady slice of his oars through the calm bay.
"No," she lied.
"Me too.
Sarah J. Maas
#56. The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.
Arianna Huffington
#57. The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
Haruki Murakami
#58. Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
Warren Buffett
#59. It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.
Stephanie Oakes
#60. It wasn't my mom at all, it was her sister Margaret - they were twins, and when their faces were masked I could barely tell the difference. Margaret's voice was a little lighter, though, a little more ... energetic. I figured it was because she'd never been married.
Dan Wells
#61. 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 can barely hear yourself.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#62. He could barely believe any of his new memories, but the idea that Isabelle Lightwood had been his girlfriend seemed more unbelievable than the fact that vampires were real and Simon had been one.
Cassandra Clare
#63. You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists.
Nayyirah Waheed
#64. ...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret.
Alice Oseman
#65. The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
Cheryl Strayed
#67. Eddie asks, So what next?
And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know.
Tom Piccirilli
#68. That's why we're just friends," Armin said, so softly I barely heard. "She can't fall in love, and I can't fall out.
Leah Raeder
#69. Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
Gene Simmons
#70. Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.
Emile Hirsch
#71. You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.
Dan Chaon
#72. Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But at other times it was like a cup that was always full and kept spilling over.
Lydia Davis
#73. I can barely stay awake," Metias had told me after his first night shift. "Does she honestly think we can guard anything after pulling an all-nighter? I was so out of it today that the Colonies' Chancellor himself could've walked into Batalla Hall and I wouldn't have known it.
Marie Lu
#74. Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self
Vikki Wakefield
#75. There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
Michael Palin
#76. I barely brushed towards her cheek as I moved towards her mouth, her nails tickled my chest, driving me insane. Kissing her became my single reason for breathing.
Katie McGarry
#77. 'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
David A.R. White
#78. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.
Candace Bushnell
#79. At the level of their biochemistry, the barrier between bacteria and complex cells barely exists.
Nick Lane
#80. Dishwasher safe, debit only, Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought.
Sorin Suciu
#81. But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.
Rob Sheffield
#82. 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 light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die.
Michael Grant
#83. How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me
Ruta Sepetys
#84. Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#85. I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#86. Damn him. Damn all good looking guys and their chin dimples and well-proportioned muscles and their hair that you want to touch so bad you can barely sit still.
Damn them all to the fiery pits of hell.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#87. What is your definition of skank?' I ask.
'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.
Megan McCafferty
#88. The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn't worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change into adulthood anyway.
Toni Morrison
#89. Right then, the future was barely an hour long.
Tim Lebbon
#90. How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?
David Mazzucchelli
#91. I stared down into her eyes, my voice barely a whisper. If I stay here any longer, I'm not going to be able to stop myself from kissing you.
Lisa Kessler
#92. I don't know if he'll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.
Gail McHugh
#93. I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
Nate Berkus
#94. I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
Frank McCourt
#95. It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds
I am to wait
I said
George Saunders
#96. I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either.
Robert A. Heinlein
#97. He could barely remember the last time he had seen a hearse on the streets. Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances.
Neil Gaiman
#98. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
#99. Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.
Michael C.C. Adams
#100. 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 only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.
Moe Norman
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