Get By Quotes

#1. There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals. Ferryboats used to lose valuable trips because their passengers grew old and died, waiting for us to get by.

Mark Twain

#2. We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

Laura Kightlinger

#3. Think! What will you get by doing what you are doing? If the answer is "Nothing", then why do it? - RVM

R.v.m.

#4. I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

Leonard Cohen

#5. Most people in Night Vale get by with a cobbled-together framework of lies and assumptions and conspiracy theories. Diane was like most people. Most people are.

Joseph Fink

#6. I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

Ted Turner

#7. It still hurts and I think the 'hurting phase' might take a long time. The fact that we can't hear you laugh breaks us into pieces. One thing's for sure though, you don't need to worry about us. We'll get by...

Bianca Salindong

#8. I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#9. A guy rubbed against me," I say. "But I think he was just trying to get by. He rubbed me, then said sorry. It was the 'sorry' that made me uncomfortable. The rub was kind of interesting, but when he apologized I felt like a creep because I actually liked it.

A.M. Homes

#10. in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I

Emanuel Derman

#11. We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

Rebecca McCann

#12. I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

Anna Kendrick

#13. Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 shipping and handling.

Maryrose Wood

#14. I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

Richie Sambora

#15. In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same time, many others are struggling t get by in the face of inequality, corruption, and injustice.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

#17. The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple.

David Mitchell

#18. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#19. What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

Zig Ziglar

#20. Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.

Tom DeLay

#21. Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Arlo Guthrie

#22. Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Betty Grable

#24. But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Jerry Garcia

#25. I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

Diego Luna

#26. Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

Deborah Feldman

#28. I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

Grace Paley

#29. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#30. But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

Jodi Picoult

#31. Using one's beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that's how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.

Shannon Celebi

#32. Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

Chuck D

#33. Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

Chief Powhatan

#34. Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#35. Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

Jason Alexander

#36. Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.

Joshua Ferris

#37. There are so many real people around, telling children what and how to do, that a boy has to run off down a beach, even if it's only in his head, to get by himself in his own world.

Ray Bradbury

#38. I'm not a single mom with two jobs, trying to get by, every day. I have much more support than most women, around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Angelina Jolie

#39. There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Raymond Louis Wilder

#40. You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#41. Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

#42. To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

John Carpenter

#43. You don't want to just get by, you want to get ahead. You don't want to settle for mediocrity, you want to strive for greatness. You don't want to get lost in the crowd, you want to stand out and lead the charge. Pushing the limits of your potential isn't easy, but it will be worth it.

Michael J. Schiemer

#44. You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?

Jack LaLanne

#45. A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness

Ottessa Moshfegh

#46. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough

Ruskin Bond

#47. Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#48. You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

Melissa George

#49. Grief:" You don't get over it you just get through it you don't get by it because you can't get around it it doesn't "get better" it just gets different every day . . . grief puts on a new face.

Brook Noel

#50. Our true believers passed on, or stopped believing, and we were left, lost and scared and dispossessed, to get by on what little smidgens of worship or belief we could find.

Neil Gaiman

#51. It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Robin Sharma

#52. I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Frank Herbert

#53. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#55. My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Mason Cooley

#56. I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

Naomi Watts

#57. Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

Pete Sessions

#58. You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Greg Rusedski

#59. A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Walt Disney

#60. Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?

Iwan Goll

#61. We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Desmond Morris

#62. As strange as my life gets, it's just my life. I'm still in it. Whatever happens, I'm going to have to find a way to get by.

Jael McHenry

#63. Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

Marlene Zuk

#64. The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Sebastian Junger

#65. I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

Nick Hornby

#66. When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

Fred Lebow

#67. Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

Daniel Daly

#68. I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Julianna Baggott

#69. I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

Sean Maguire

#70. We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

Jeff Sessions

#71. You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes.

Philip K. Dick

#72. He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." ...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#73. The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

Amy Poehler

#74. I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

Yukimi Nagano

#75. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

Doris Lessing

#76. I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

Henry Adams

#77. Cats can get by without names. We go by smell, shape, things of this nature. As long as we know these things, there're no worries for us.

Haruki Murakami

#78. Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.

Johnny Cash

#79. I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room - "
"Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP, go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.

Nora Roberts

#80. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.

Neil Gaiman

#81. I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists can get by on their voices and their style, but my songs speak volumes, and all I have to to is lay them down correctly, lyrically, and they'll do what they need to do.

Bob Dylan

#82. In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

Bill O'Reilly

#83. Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

Raquel Welch

#84. All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Homer

#85. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?

Martha Beck

#86. These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by.

Fall Out Boy

#87. Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Jack Ma

#88. She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

Laura Lippman

#89. Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Maria Bartiromo

#90. And you?" she asked. "What happens to you in that scenario?" I die a little each day we're apart. "I ... get by. And I miss you, every day." Every hour, every minute ... every second.

S.C. Stephens

#91. If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.

Tim Schafer

#92. Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by.

Debasish Mridha

#93. Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Robert Englund

#94. The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Jeffrey Sachs

#95. Why settle for the 'get by' when in the long run the good costs less?

Zig Ziglar

#96. I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Montgomery Clift

#97. Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.

Heather Wolf

#98. I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

Daniel Everett

#99. I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

Michael Franti

#100. I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

Laura Poitras