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

  Julie Harris

  Lucky, Tonight, Might

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• A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mean, Mind, Doe

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.3, editionNEXT.com

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• 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

  Done, Captains, Ships

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• Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Existence

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• There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Sight, Self

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• It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Attachment, Earth

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.237

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• Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

  John French Sloan

  Nice, Losing, Form

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• I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Funny, Stupid, Interesting

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  Daniel Boulud

  Movement, Trends, Today

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• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Sight, House

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

  Clint Eastwood

  Impact, Feelings, Analyzing

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• Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.

  Peter Medawar

  Appreciation, Discovery, Giving

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.32, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Morning, Buddhism, Suffering

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• "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Healing, Anathema

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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• Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Men, Lakes

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• The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Blood, People

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

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Emotion

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• I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

  Trey Songz

  Fun, Thinking, Long

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• Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  Jay Gould

  Gains, Be Careful, Ability

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• I always made sure that I kept the dignity, or tried to keep the dignity that they showed, by standing there and singing and not doing too much else, because I didn't know what else to do. But you know, sometimes you can get carried away and I don't know, lose your composure or something.

  Johnny Mathis

  Singing, Too Much, Dignity

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

  Thomas Merton

  Roots, Demand, Want

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• It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Difficult

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• The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Years, Wind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Passion, Maturity

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