Carried Away Quotes

• Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

  Roy Spence

  Passion, Heart, Purpose

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• People who never get carried away should be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sports, Enthusiasm For Life, People

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• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Robert Frost

  Power, Icy, World

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• All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ideas, People, World

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, Abandon, My Own

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• You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

  Ben Elton

  Running, Mistake, Risk

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• I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• 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 the violence of our times.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Peace, Demand

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• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  La Monte Young

  Heaven, Failing, Listeners

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• Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, People, Imagination

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book edited by George Plimpton, October 1, 1986.

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• In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Order, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is.

  Gerry McGovern

  Kids, Space, Choices

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• Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Sweet, Thinking, Suffering

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.75, Cosimo Classics

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• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

  Andrei Platonov

  Thinking, What If, Left

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• You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Light, Doors, Trouble

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 176, 1975.

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

  Diego Maradona

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Men, White Man

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• There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!" ... "Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Dad, Soul

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.

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• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

  Saadi

  Camels, Habit, Fountain

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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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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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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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