Quotes About Barely

A miss is as good as a mile.

He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

life's most important moments are often barely noticed by others, if noticed at all.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

We still should have enough time to reach Rome." Hazel scowled. "When you say should have enough …" Leo shrugged. "How do you feel about barely enough ?" Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. "Sounds about typical for us.

I led Daniel to the master bedroom and closed the door behind us. "What's up?" I whispered. "Hmm?" "You've barely said a word since Rafe showed up. You don't trust him." "What? No. Of course I trust him. The guy fell out of a helicopter so we wouldn't.

To be honest, I don't really have my own makeup because when I'm not on television or doing a photoshoot or something I barely wear it.

It's as if a thousand different sensations have been merged, but just barely, and only by a superhuman act of creativity.

I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors' barely contained enthusiasm.

I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

We are the behemoths—lost, lumbering, out of our time. We are about to become extinct. And yet we are young, barely thirty, and we have not even begun to live.

I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, I could be. I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am.

Regardless of the efforts discussed here, researchers in the field have barely scratched the surface in engaging in-depth analysis of multiple theoretical

If only he could be like that – intellectually honourable. Another baffling item on the cryptic report card his mother toted around in some mental pocket, the report card on which he was always just barely passing.

I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.

The loincloth, too, was ornamented in gold and barely covered his private parts decently.

Gabe's room was as dark as a cave. He was asleep under the covers, a barely discernible lump.

It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all

the last hours. In fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.

We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events. We cannot control life. Some of us can barely control ourselves. People

we order our lives with barely held stories

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.