“ For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
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“ Oh, Mister Porter, what shall I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe. ”
- Marie Lloyd- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
- 160
“ Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 742
“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I felt compelled to perform — to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren't aware how much it carried me through. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ The army commander of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
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“ The short-term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out… ”
- American Management- Copy
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“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”
- Cynthia Ozick- Copy
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“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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