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Quotes About Carried

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
~ Lord Byron
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
~ George W. Bush
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, In Parenthesis
May I have the honor . . . Mrs. Caradon?" Mrs. Caradon. Mrs. Wyatt Caradon. She leaned down and he lifted her into his arms. She kept her eyes averted as he carried her up the stairs and across the threshold of the cabin, yet she was aware of every place their bodies touched, and of where his hands were on her—chaste and proper—which only accentuated what he was probably thinking about. And what she was trying her best not to.
~ Tamera Alexander
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Where are my clothes?" He grinned unexpectedly, a perfect male smirk. "I got carried away and ripped your jeans. Just stay with me tonight, and I will get you new clothes tomorrow.
~ Christine Feehan
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
~ Dave Holland
The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill.
~ Charles Dickens
In what state of rest or motion? At rest relatively to themselves and to each other. In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.
~ James Joyce
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.
~ Lupe Fiasco
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Authority was a little plastic ball that Graff carried.
~ Orson Scott Card
The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Where was my mother? I wondered. I'd carried her so long, staggering beneath her weight. On the other side of the river, I let myself think. And something inside of me released.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The tender voice of new language is as the breaths of whispers carried on the light.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!!
~ Janet Evanovich
I figured if you had to breathe New Jersey air there wasn't much point in getting carried away with always eating healthy food.
~ Janet Evanovich
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
~ James Larkin
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 D. McLaren
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
~ David Foster Wallace
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
~ Michael Arrington
The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Tomas Tranströmer—died on March 26, 2015, at the age of 83. He wrote: I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case. // The only thing I want to say / glitters out of reach / like the silver / in a pawnbroker's.
~ Victoria Chang