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

Ifs Heaven Failing Listeners Carried Away

Author:La Monte Young

“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.”

People Humans Choices Deals Cases Economy Economic Aspect Including Right Thing Dimensions Excess Carried Away Aspects Of Life Latitude

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“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.”

World Whole Power World History Icy Carried Away

Author:Robert Frost

“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.”

“I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.”

Funny Interesting Stupid Dogma Carried Away

Author:Lincoln Diaz-Balart

“The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.”

Years Eye White Tree Wind Blind Hollow Owl Carried Away Old Trees

Book:Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works

Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works

“It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.”

Difficult Finishing Carried Away

Author:Claude Monet

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. 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 violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”

People Sometimes Difficult Struggle Conditions Broken Revolution Mass Direct Revolutionary Motive Joining Vogue Carried Away

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.”

Ability Gains Careful Be Careful Carried Away

Author:Jay Gould

“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.”

Thinking Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Audience Figures Balance Asking Imaginary Carried Away

Author:David Byrne

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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.”

Light Greater Trouble Doors Studios Variety Carried Away

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.”

Form Nice Losing Draws Expenses Brushes Modeling Subtlety Carried Away

Author:John French Sloan

“Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.”

Littles Pay Theory Beats Observation Hey Now And Then Maxims Remarks Occasional Olives Carried Away

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.”

Has Beens Art Hard Facts Felt Born Attitude Ill Spite Distrust Brutality My Attitude Carried Away Disgusted

Author:Edgar Degas

“If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.”

Ifs Feelings Remember Film Approach Impact Liable Analyzing Carried Away Hitchcock Impact On Society

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”

House Sides Fire Sight Flying Telling The Truth Sunlight Steel Astonishing Polished Dazzling Carried Away Chariots Chariots Of Fire

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.”

Kids Names Parent Brother Letters Silent Our Family My Brother My Sister Carried Away

Author:Paula Poundstone

“There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.”

May Stories Use Mountain Benefits Increase Envy Access Generosity Abundance Thrive Application Salt Decay Uncertain Purses Merchants Carried Away

Author:Herbert Spencer

“If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.”

Ifs Way Endless Finding Yourself Mazes Carried Away

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?”

Men Giving Should Children War Pain Broken Gun Carried Away Broken Up

Book:The Mortal Storm

Source: The Mortal Storm

“I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.”

Believe Humans Passion Mets Creatures Don't Believe Envy Senses Guilty Maturity Earnest Jest Carried Away

Author:Bernard de Mandeville

“I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.”

Thinking Wells Self Faces Known Importance Twenties Boots Well Known Sense Of Self Scottish Carried Away Self-importance

Author:Ashley Jensen

“A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.”

Today Young Influence Movement Trends Chef Carried Away

Author:Daniel Boulud

“I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.”

Needs Sometimes Political Social Movement Regret Balance Involved Activity My Family Obligation No Regrets Carried Away Social Movements Have No Regrets

Author:Howard Zinn

“My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. Its endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.”

Years Father Couple Tradition Dresses Fancy Surprising Costumes Embarrassing Appearing Carried Away Endearing

Author:Pippa Middleton

“Those carried away by power are soon carried away.”

Power Carried Away

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”

Heart Lying Passion Clear My Heart Mouths Carried Away

Author:Jean Racine

“Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.”

Helping Problem Running Past Healing Worry Learning Meditation Regret Future Despair Difficulty Anger Running Away Carried Away

Book:Walking Meditation

Source: Walking Meditation

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

Found Habit Streams Load Fountain Camels Carried Away Fountain Head

Author:Saadi

“Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.”

Heart Eye Order Heaven Sound Lord Creatures Worship Singing Aim Rewards Clouds Carried Away

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away”

Children Long Reason Spirit Teach Land Soil Native Native American Carried Away Great Spirit

Author:Black Hawk

“The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.”

Danger Affection Riches Carried Away

Author:John Piper

“We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.”

Making Love Truck Carried Away

Author:Spike Milligan

“I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.”

Light Actors Scene Happenings Carried Away

Author:Benjamin Avila

“I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.”

Needs Feels Military Movement Members Demonstration Pacifist Carried Away

Author:Guido Westerwelle

“The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.”

Europe Statements Indispensable Carried Away

Author:Francois Hollande

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.”

People Helping Form Dies Left Psychology Come Up Relief Interpretation Resorts Carried Away Fatalism

Author:Francesca Marciano

“Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.”

Rivers Gentle Carried Away

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.”

Long Values Enthusiasm Carried Away

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”

Has Beens Made Happens Events Rivers Violent Streams Carried Away

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really was incredibly skinny and also quite unwell while we were filming. It wasn't very healthy. I don't recommend it. But then also doing the torture scenes, the water boarding stuff, there wasn't really any other way just to do it really.”

Men Way Lost Stuff Water Healthy Scene Intense Torture Pounds Skinny Railway Carried Away

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.”

I Can Done Would Be Wanted Jobs Easy Excited Excitement Good Job Easy To Get Carried Away

Author:Giles Matthey

“Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.”

Men Feels Should Wells Sometimes Done Fun Waiting Sweet Return Lovers Blind Awake Damage Over You Waiting For You Carried Away

Author:Jeff Buckley

“I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.”

Ifs Long Play Happens Used Girl Hair Guitar Expected Glad Hobbies Music Business Cool Things Carried Away Long Hair Very Cool

Author:John Martyn

“Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.”

Real Ends Song Imagination Stem Vivid Carried Away Vivid Imagination

Author:Imogen Heap

“No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.”

Matter Wind Absence Indifference Carried Away Your Absence

Author:Serge Gainsbourg

“Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.”

Doe Real Earth House Bits Phones Surreal Down To Earth Carried Away

Author:Ellie Goulding