Barely Quotes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Work, Best, Done

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain

Enough, Sometimes, Drink

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas

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

Able, Walk, Move

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
Christopher Hitchens

Why, Question, Return

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

Before, Training, Service

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz

God, Beautiful, Children

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

Beauty, Melancholy, Conceive

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
Mason Cooley

Free, Youth, Horse

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

Win, Lose, Games

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Amazing, Old

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Diet, Black

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
Margaret Cho

Time, Deep, Words

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen

Prayer, Child, Himself

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
Leonard Cohen

While, Though, Maybe

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson

Black, Trying, Remember

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Samuel Richardson

Love, May, Happen

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt

Good, Nothing, Soul

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty

Lazy, Prolific, Incredibly

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

Rock, Play, Band

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Mary J. Blige

Time, Parenting, Children

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
David Suzuki

Change, Often, Year

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
Gwen Stefani

Husband, Fight, Start

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
Meryl Streep

Life, Time, Movies

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Hugh Laurie

History, Single, May

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho

Life, Change, Someone

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
Rob Zombie

School, Fun, Remember

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

I can barely turn on my computer!
Jack Nicklaus

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