Carried Away Quotes - Page 4

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

Ehud Olmert

Israel, Emotion

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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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Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Spiritual, Fall, Passion

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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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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

People, Choices, Dimensions

"Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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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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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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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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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 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 not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

Vladimir Lenin

Struggle, People, Broken

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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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It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Inspirational, Art, Moving

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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

Doris Lessing

Falling In Love, Fall, Ideas

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I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

Robert Pattinson

Kissing, Walking Away, Nuts

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I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.

Sijie Dai

Book, Looks, Pouring

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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Reading, Imagination, Soul

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

David Nicholls

Growing Up, Thinking, Sensible

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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

Mark Strand

Summer, Strong, Passion

Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf

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“There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. “My lord Osiris!” Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. “This is an outrage!” “Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”

Rick Riordan

Baby, Dad, Osiris

"The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, May 2, 2012.

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I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Orson Scott Card

Hate, Love You, Heart

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.307, Macmillan

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