A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
Laozi

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

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

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Rose Tremain

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.
Kenny Hickey

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Estella Warren

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

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
Jonathan Shapiro

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey

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

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

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

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.
John White Geary

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
Ruby Wax

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

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
Robert Morgan

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
Ned Beatty

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
Poul Anderson

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Lee Curtis