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Quotes About Carrying

Not long afterward they found her like that and one of them lifted her and carried her across the snow to the group of vehicles.
~ Adam Hall
guards, carrying on, warming themselves around the
~ Ravi Howard
I lived in New York from 1989 to 1996, and I feel like I just got used to carrying everything around.
~ Erika Jayne
I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.
~ Laila Rouass
Rain filled the gutters and splashed knee-high off the sidewalk. Big cops in slickers that shone like gun barrels had a lot of fun carrying giggling girls across the bad places. The rain drummed hard on the roof of the car and the burbank top began to leak. A pool of water formed on the floorboards for me to keep my feet in. It was too early in the fall for that kind of rain.
~ Raymond Chandler
The story enchanted me, and I took to carrying the book with me everywhere, as if it were some powerful talisman, as if it contained some magic that might somehow convey or explain something fundamental to me.
~ Richard Flanagan
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
~ Charles Tupper
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
~ Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism
Part of me was excited. But part of me was really tired. I had been carrying something for a long time. I needed to put it down.
~ Rebecca Stead
In effect, 1986 marks the year that humans reached Earth's carrying capacity,
~ Richard Branson
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
~ Henri Bergson
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while." Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset." "You...you carried me here?" "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot." Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
~ Richelle Mead
Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash didn't take up much room. It could be packed in four shoe boxes, and fit in a single grocery bag. Walsh carried the money in a gym bag slung over her shoulder. The bag was smaller than Pike thought, but he could see the weight in her walk. She
~ Robert Crais
Leo, put me down. I can walk. I like carrying you. He strode down the hallway toward the bedchamber. I dream about holding you in my arms.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
This was the illness my father was carrying around with him.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Lately I'd begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
~ Kim Harrison
artists and thinkers – who fill the history books. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Root stood on the doorstep, palms up, the universal gesture for Look, I'm not carrying a big murderous weapon.
~ Eoin Colfer
When villagers in Third World countries are asked in surveys, "What is the most important problem in your life?" they consistently respond, "Water." Typically, village families walk several miles to obtain a reliable source of water, and three to four hours per day are spent by water-gatherers in carrying the water to their home.
~ Everett M. Rogers
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I love your arms,' she sang, as James carried her the long way around the outside of the main building. 'Big manly arms, carrying little Kerry.
~ Robert Muchamore
I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.
~ Robyn Davidson
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
~ Marcus Aurelius