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Quotes About Carried

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.
~ Fay Weldon
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
~ Ben Elton
The physicist glared at him defiantly but allowed herself to be carried without further theatrics.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
disagreements were getting worse. He had been an annoying child, but he was an utterly infuriating adult. Half an hour later, she and the neighbour carried
~ Anna Jacobs
Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.
~ Robert Torricelli
Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.
~ Salman Rushdie
My body isn't designed for walking. It's entirely the wrong shape. The legs are far too short and the whole trunk is shaped exactly to fit into seats and be carried comfortably to its destination, preferably by something fast and exciting, such as a sports car or a helicopter.
~ Joe Simpson
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
~ Knut Hamsun
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
~ Robert Walpole
Just you wait, Abby Johnston. My coolness will hit you like a tsunami. You will be carried along by its raging power. You will be turned into a freaking icicle by the frostiness of my cool.
~ Sarah Darer Littman
Superiority in war ... cannot surely be a proof of justice, since wars are often unjustly undertaken, and successfully, though wickedly, carried on and concluded.
~ Aristotle
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
~ William Henry Harrison
Williamson, writing in 1810, tells us that the passes were so infested with tigers that the roads were almost impassible. 'Day after day, for nearly a fortnight, some of the dak people were carried off at one or other of these passes.' In
~ Ruskin Bond
This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
At the same time she carried herself, as ever, with complete composure, and her air of dissatisfaction may have been no more than outward expression of a fashionable indifference to life.
~ Anthony Powell
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
~ James Larkin
Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Holding onto Midge's shirt so he isn't carried off in the wind, we
~ Jon Bounds
There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
bubonic plague is mostly carried by fleas which have bitten plague-ridden rodents, and then accidentally bite people. It isn't a human disease at all, and humans only get caught up in the cycle by mistake.
~ Graham Masterton
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~ Shakti Gawain
I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.
~ Mary Balogh