Carrying On Quotes - Page 4

• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Law, Effort

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• Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Determination, Matter, Endure

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
  I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
  Your picture brings me tears and memories,
  The way things could be...and they should be, but they're not.

  Afrika Baby Bam

  Memories, Rap, Years

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• Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Technology, College

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Independent, Brain, Curiosity

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• Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Running, Lying, Moving

  1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.

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• I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

  Lauren Conrad

  Awkward, Stuff, Conversation

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• Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

  William H. Calvin

  Insecurity, Risk, Usual

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• Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Special, Use, Literature

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• To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

  Aviation, Predictions, Fortune

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• My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Father, Blood, Want

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Running, Communication, Light

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• This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Circles, Choices, Full Circle

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.287, Random House

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• Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together

  Roger McGough

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Together

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• In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

  Pamela Melroy

  Dream, Journey, Train Wrecks

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• I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.

  Hannibal

  War, Yield, Honor

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