Carrie Quotes - Page 12

• Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Arguing, Problem, Dilemma

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

  Freya Stark

  Doubt, Usual, Comfort

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• [W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

  E. O. Wilson

  Mind, Religion, Hens

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

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• Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Ideas, Desire

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Vanity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mean, Fighting, Expression

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Democracy, Destruction, Humans

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• An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Men, Order

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.23, Routledge

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• The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Education, Children, Home

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

  Scott Weiss

  Lasting Impressions, Months, Firsts

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• To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fashion, Pain, Heart

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• Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Stupidity, Sublime

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• Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Believe, Self Confidence

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• Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Laughter, Powerful, Light

  Isobelle Carmody (1996). “The Gathering”, Puffin

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• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Real, Leader

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Moon, Sky, Earth

  Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

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• Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.

  Marianne von Werefkin

  Art, Unique, Soul

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• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Cooks, Ifs

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• It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.

  Robert M

  Earthquakes, Voice, Fire

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• It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Symphony, Gestures, Quiet

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• A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mind, May, Causes

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• When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

  Juanes

  Light, Talking, Energy

  Juanes (2013). “Chasing the Sun”, p.266, Penguin

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