Top 1119 Barely Quotes & Sayings

I can barely sit in one place for five minutes.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.'

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

I can barely turn on my computer!

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

... some of the best sex I can barely remember.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.

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.

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

I barely get any time for myself.

I barely speak English.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

I barely speak Spanish.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

That girl can barely spell her name.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

So often we measure by what is false. We should measure by what is barely legible barely in our dailiness. It is the invisible that doesn't lie the invisible through which we see ourselves finally on a back street in the world.

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

I lost my father when I was barely 10.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely 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.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

I barely graduated high school.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.