Quotes About Barely Making It

#1. I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

Stewart Butterfield

#2. Someone who takes the trouble to see her file at one of the many brokerages, for example, might see the home mortgage, a Verizon bill, and a $ 459 repair on the garage door. But she won't see that she's in a bucket of people designated as "Rural and Barely Making It,"or perhaps "Retiring on Empty.

Cathy O'Neil

#3. And what's the irony?
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In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?

Deyth Banger

#4. between a full-time job, law school, hours of reading cases, and study groups, I barely have time to sleep, much less date. Which is why I gave them up. "Which floor?" His upper crust Brit accent curls around my spine, making mush out of me. "Uh,

Magda Alexander

#5. I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.

Dale Peck

#6. The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

Yuri Milner

#7. Ouch,' my dad says in mock hurt. 'Right in the heart, Lil'
'Its the only place I can reach,' she refutes.
'I'm not sure about that...' Their voices soften. Too quiet. Which means they're lip-locked.
'Mom! Dad!' I shout, and Farrow and I reach the base of the stairs first.

Krista Ritchie

#8. [A]ltos are walking amongst us, making life richer, though we may barely know it.

Anna George Meek

#9. Until now, I've barely had the chance to register his size. I knew he was big, I even just watched him stroking it. But like this, from behind when he's taking it slow, making me feel every inch, I really know it.

Kerry Heavens

#10. One day you wake up and you realize something, you see something in a way that you never saw it before, and boom, epiphany. Something is different forever.

John Green

#11. You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

#12. No place is ever the same tomorrow.

N.D. Wilson

#13. Maybe something bad would have happened if this guy didn't slow you down when he did. Maybe this is your guardian angel, looking out for you.

Priscilla Glenn

#14. The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

Portia De Rossi

#15. Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Epictetus

#17. Several shades of the color, cloudy, silvery shades, churn underneath the surface of his skin, making him look marbled, textured. It paints a barely believable portrait. Every feature on him works in harmony to create, well, a person. But he's unlike any person I've ever seen.

Chelsea Scott

#18. miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end

Malcolm Gladwell

#19. You follow your heart because one day, it'll lead you home.

T.J. Klune

#20. While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Henry Selick

#21. You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Martha Reeves

#22. Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.

Greg Giraldo

#23. Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

H.G.Wells

#24. There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

Nicola Griffith

#25. There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

H.M. Tomlinson

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

William Ellery Channing