Carrie Quotes - Page 21

• We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Forgiving, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• …words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

  A. S. Byatt

  Home, Safety, Design

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• It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

  Pam Houston

  Balance, September

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Law, Punishment, Desire

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• Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

  Paul Celan

  Arrows, Secret, Target

  Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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• Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

  Terry Goodkind

  Culture, World, Privilege

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.270, Head of Zeus

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• In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

  Pope John Paul II

  Passion, Men, Voice

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• Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

  Wendell Berry

  Love, Dark, Shining

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.51, Counterpoint Press

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• Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Tools, Spirit, Has Beens

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• Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

  Lisa McMann

  Might, Poke, Sharp Edges

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sweet, Heart, Love Life

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.172, Vintage

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• I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Crazy, Rain, Flower

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• You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Fire

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

  Janet Evanovich

  Clothes, Weight, Flesh

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Plum Lucky”, p.7, Macmillan

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• It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

  Roland Barthes

  Moving, Heart, Men

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• Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

  Arthur Golden

  Water, Personality, Landscape

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

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• Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

  Franz Kafka

  Wall, Mean, Night

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• She carries chaos like an overcoat.

  Ann Aguirre

  Chaos, Overcoat

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.220, Penguin

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• A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

  Gaston Leroux

  Hands, Twenties, Opera

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• We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

  Michael Polanyi

  Pieces, Rewards, Accepting

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• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Feelings, Able

  "The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1890.

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• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

  Richard Powers

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

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• How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

  Tariq Ali

  Doe, Circumstances, Persons

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• How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Soul

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.1520, e-artnow

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