Famous Quotes & Sayings

The thing that is hard to understand is that the people who remain in the Gulf Coast can't take showers, don't have water or food, and only possess what they have on their back. My dad said that they barely got out alive. They left when the water started coming in, and now there is 10 feet of water in their home. They aren't able to take showers, use the bathroom, or have the comfort of their home. They just have each other, and the trust that we are coming with help.

Scott Smith

I used to go in with my bare hands, but I won't do that anymore.

Max McGee

I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning, and I could barely stand up for the kickoff.

Aristotle

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life

It was worse when I stood around or sat down. During the game (against Austin), I could barely move.

The state just wants to do the bare minimum, and that is wrong.

These cops - these heroes in training - can barely make ends meet when they are in Police Academy. It is disgraceful.

The second home run barely got out. The first one was just a question as to whether it would stay fair or foul. It stayed fair. That's gonna happen with the wind blowing out.

Charles M. Schwab

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.

Through the fish eyed lenseof tear stained eyes, i can barely define the shape of this moment in time

Things are still tight with no extra for essentials, just the bare minimum.

The way golf has changed, my game still works. There's just barely enough skill left in the game where I can still play.

Byron Dorgan

These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,

The sales process has to be more tightly regulated to ensure that consumers get all the information upfront and are not bamboozled with offers for taking out the card whilst the sky-high interest rates are barely mentioned.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up, just like that, in my life. One second, you could barely hear in here. And the next second, all that noise was gone. And the only noise you could hear was on our bench.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people get so quiet so quickly, ... You could barely hear and then boom, the only noise you heard was our dugout.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

There's one case that sticks out in particular: two small children had to watch as their mother was beaten to death by their father with his bare hands,

There's nothing like putting your bare feet into fresh cow dung on a cold day. It's great.

The time to do something is now because we have no debt, we own the building and the land. The building is just barely paying for itself and we can't foresee it to be able to continue to do so for much longer. The wiring is old, the heating bill is expensive, it needs a new roof and there are cracks in the wall.

Anthony Johnson

We feel very good about our chances of making the playoffs. I really don't think that's a concern in this locker room. It is a concern that we are playing well going into the playoffs. We don't want to stagger in and barely make it.

We got my 10-year-old grandson and headed outside barefoot in the 15-degree temperature. We got in the car and called the Fire Department back from my cell phone.

The Federal Reserve, with the ink barely dry on its statement of intent to move in a measured pace, has begun a new theme that says 'measured' may be too slow.

Jim Carter

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Xavier Malisse

I'm really happy I can play like this after only two or three matches for the year. I barely made a mistake in the first set.

I'm looking at this wall, and it isn't even on the list of repairs. When we say that we cut the referendum (amount) to the point of bare necessities, we mean it.

You throw $5 million into a program like that, and it barely pays for the secretaries.

The Barefoot Shoemaker: Capitalizing on the New Russia

The rest of the world is paying very high prices for Australia's mineral and energy exports while import prices, excluding oil, have barely risen over the past few years.

Marilyn Nelson

These visitors (from outside the country) stay twice as long (at vacation destinations) and spend twice as much as our own citizens and we've barely begun to tap the potential,

Mike Hargrove

On a scale of 1-10, this is barely a 1. This is patty cake.

Albert Camus

Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. 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 the 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.