Carried Away Quotes (page 3)

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• emotional
• carries
• tends

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions. Ehud Olmert

• away
• carrying
• might

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away. Julie Harris

• innocent
• people
• waiting

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

• life
• good
• opportunity

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

• failings
• carry
• carrie

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. La Monte Young

• confidence
• winning
• you

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. Diego Maradona

• carry
• them
• ideas

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. Gustav Mahler

• writing
• drinking
• words

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. John Shirley

• book
• carry
• canned

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce

• carrying guns
• carries
• powder

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. Chief Joseph

• greatness
• challenge
• humanity

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. Lee R. Raymond

• good
• lost
• goodness

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. William Adams

• age
• family
• work

Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaurus. Four years later, age twenty, he left Chicago with five cartons of classics, bought secondhand out of his spending money, to be stored in his parents' attic while he served two years in the Army. In 1960, when he was divorced from Betsy, there were thirty cartons to be packed from the shelves... Philip Roth

• rough
• night
• promise

Then Pa looked straight at Laura and said, 'You girls keep away from the camp. When you go walking. don't go near where the men are working, and you be sure you're back here before they come in for the night. There's all kinds of rough men working on the grade and using rough language, and the less you see and hear of them the better. Now remember, Laura. And you too, Carrie.' Pa's face was very serious.'Yes, Pa' Laura promised, and Carrie almost whispered , 'Yes, Pa.' Carrie's eyes were... Laura Ingalls Wilder

• eyes
• time
• tears

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for... Friedrich Nietzsche