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Quotes About Carried

Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity -- of schedules and pastimes ad the weather -- became their principal consolation.
~ Barack Obama
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There were at least 6,185 summary executions in the Red Terror of 1918—in two months. There had been 6,321 death sentences by Russian courts between 1825 and 1917, not all of them carried out.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Berndt handed in a plan for the occultist propaganda to be carried on by us. We are getting somewhere. The Americans and English fall easily to this kind of propaganda. We are therefore pressing into service all star witnesses of occult prophecy. Nostradamus must once again submit to being quoted.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.
~ Stanley Druckenmiller
Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.
~ Mavis Gallant
The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy—in a dead sleep all the time—and carried him out so, at the door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.
~ Judith Ivory
We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.
~ Frederic Bastiat
On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
~ Frances Densmore
What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge?
~ Sorin Cerin
made him late to the funeral. He carried
~ Michael Connelly
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
~ Alan Alda
Blood is life. Disease here and evil there are both carried by blood. And they're wiped out by blood.
~ Ted Dekker
In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
~ Ehud Olmert
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
~ Michel Foucault
And gears, said Anathema. My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears. Crowley leaned over to the angel. Oh lord, heal this bike, he whispered sarcastically. I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
~ Terry Pratchett
There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.
~ Terry Pratchett
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
~ Brian McLaren
Caradoreans were valued in Magrast. They were seen as lucky, as if they carried a special magic in their blood.
~ Storm Constantine
How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?
~ Faraaz Kazi
A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true; the proving makes it so.
~ Naomi Novik