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Quotes About Carried

Heroes are carried on the backs of a thousand forgotten faces.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
~ Mark Thomas
A man who always carried a well-lubricated status detector, he settled in at Harvard.
~ Joseph Epstein
more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.
~ Daniel Silva
Nevertheless, no other speech proved "so effective, none so full of character and none which found so responsive an audience. It carried everything before it, and old campaigners sighed that such energy was beyond them.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I was born in March 1946, almost exactly 10 months after V-E Day, so I imagine my parents got carried away when peace was declared.
~ John Virgo
Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home.
~ Karan Kapoor
Klopp never wanted us to get carried away. He never wanted us to think of ourselves as champions, even though we were top of the league. He wanted us to focus on ourselves, not to listen to what people were saying about us. It was all about the next game and only the next game.
~ Shinji Kagawa
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
~ Duke Ellington
Every length smells of rabbit—of that great, indestructible flood of Rabbitry in which each one is carried along, sure-footed and safe.
~ Richard Adams
I'm surprised that, with all of his supposed experience with the gentler sex, he doesn't realize that women do not like to be carried in a way that musses their hair and leaves them with unattractively red faces.
~ Karen Hawkins
Even Saints, I believe, are never cannonized until years after they've been carried to bed on six men's shoulders.
~ Kasey Michaels
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.
~ David Jones
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.
~ Winston Churchill
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
~ Leigh Hunt
I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...
~ Rex Stout
Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.
~ Woody Allen
He put the hatchet away, and lifted her. He kissed her breast. "Come, let's away. We shall be God's spies." He carried her into the forest of impaled heads.
~ Richard Laymon
There's my baby! I cried, quite carried away, There's my poochiekins! ... Sadie, My dad said firmly, Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.
~ Riordan, Rick
The most celebrated fairy doctors are sometimes people the fairies loved and carried away, and kept with them for seven years; not that those the fairies love are always carried off--they may merely grow silent and strange, and take to lonely wanderings in the "gentle" places.
~ yeats william butler v
He was carried along as easily as a shell in a wave.
~ Deborah Crombie