Top 100 Quotes About Carried Away
#1. All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers ... only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.
Louis L'Amour
#2. A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
Sri Aurobindo
#3. He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#4. Didn't use a condom," he says with genuine regret in his eyes. "I'm sorry, I got so carried away. You're on birth control, right?
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#5. Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.
-Nana Komatsu
Ai Yazawa
#6. Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben Elton
#8. Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.
Sonakshi Sinha
#9. Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
Baron De Montesquieu
#10. I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.
Lawrence Timmons
#11. I was betrayed, one more day, of my short life.
You were carried away, had no shame, to suffocate my being.
I was me, but you weren't you.
You were sticking to me like a scab.
So, I peeled you away...
Bled for days...
And stepped out of myself.
Pantera
#12. Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
Knut Hamsun
#13. 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?
Phyllis Bottome
#14. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.
Olarewaju Oladipo
#16. 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.
Woody Allen
#17. In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop getting carried away.
Dan Harris
#18. 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 the violence of our times.
Thomas Merton
#19. I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.
Jeffrey Thomas
#20. In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
Ehud Olmert
#21. Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#22. When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
Jonathan Campbell
#23. Oh no," she murmured, her smile thawing, falling, carried away with the undeniable, inevitable, impossible truth of it. She was falling in love with him.
Marissa Meyer
#24. Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington
#25. Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
William Adams
#26. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#27. I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away
Orson Scott Card
#28. I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
John Shirley
#29. But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside. Enough of these phantasies.
Jules Verne
#30. I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.
Gerry Harvey
#31. Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.
Mario Puzo
#32. people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Jules Verne
#34. Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
Catherine Tate
#35. 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.
Lee R. Raymond
#36. So you've made your Christmas list? Checked it twice? Before we get too carried away dreaming about the CD or Xbox game we've just got to have, let's be thankful for the One gift we already have - the best gift of all.
Max Lucado
#37. We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.
Helene Cixous
#38. Oh, before I get carried away with my news - how are you? I hope you're doing all right and not second-guessing your decision to back away from your marriage plans. Honestly, though, I've been doing some of that here, but for different reasons, of course. Well,
Beverly Lewis
#39. You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.
Julie Harris
#40. OK.Now, I may be engaged, but I'm not going to get carried away.
Sophie Kinsella
#41. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#42. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
Jimmy Johnson
#43. We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness
J.K. Rowling
#44. How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?
Faraaz Kazi
#45. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
Wendell Berry
#46. When you got angry and frustrated and scared enough, it was so, so easy to get carried away.
Nick Cutter
#47. Turning her face away from him, she let the tears fall at last. They were carried away on the wind as if they'd never been. Much like her.
Rosalie Lario
#48. What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
Andrei Platonov
#50. Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.
Donald O'Connor
#51. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#53. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.
Dai Sijie
#54. We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph
#55. We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.
Victoria Osteen
#56. We can get carried away with our heads in books, and although there's so much to be learned from that, I think sitting in a cafe and speaking with someone - whatever it is, their mannerisms, their choices, are just as valuable as any class you can go to.
Rose McIver
#57. That's what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you.
Anne Hebert
#58. When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
Karl Lagerfeld
#59. My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'
Hillary Clinton
#60. 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.
Ellie Goulding
#61. 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.
Guido Westerwelle
#62. It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
Claude Monet
#63. When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
Jean Racine
#64. Well so am I." She stared at the coverlet. "What I said ... earlier," she faltered, glancing at him and then away. "I was overwrought and tired, and I guess I kind of got carried away."
"You mistook a chill for true love?
Diana Palmer
#65. He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded.
Paulo Coelho
#66. A gigantic crowd of one million persons was gathered on the Maifeld to hear the two fascist dictators speak their pieces. Mussolini, orating in German, was carried away by the deafening applause - and by Hitler's flattering words.
William L. Shirer
#67. If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
Gautama Buddha
#68. I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
Plato
#69. He cleared his throat. "I did get carried away with you. Couldn't help myself. And when I said it wouldn't happen again ... " He risked skimming his fingers up her smooth shin. "I hope I lied.
Tracy March
#70. If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
Ramana Maharshi
#71. To feel pity, to be carried away by the pleasure of hearing a clever argument, to listen to the claims of decency are three things that are entirely against the interests of an imperial power.
Thucydides
#72. A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing
#74. No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
Serge Gainsbourg
#75. The crowning evidence that Jesus was alive was not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled away stone, but a carried away church.
Clarence Jordan
#76. Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices.
Amit Ray
#77. And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for a time, hate or love, if only not to sit with your hands folded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#78. I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.
Saadi
#79. Those men who are the most violent are not at all carried away by fury. In fact, their heart rates actually drop and they become physiologically calmer as they become more violent.
Gavin De Becker
#80. I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.
Robert Pattinson
#81. If the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is.
Albert Camus
#83. Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#84. Haven't you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?"
"Everybody gets carried away from time to time," Tracy told the boy who had carried him away.
Paul Russell
#85. Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.
Katherine Rundell
#86. 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. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
Pippa Middleton
#87. The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
Alan Alda
#88. Cicero said: "Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue." Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying. "Here's something wonderfully cheap; let's buy it." "Have you any use for it?" "No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.
Chuck Feeney
#90. I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.
Trey Songz
#91. She was giving me oral sex, and she got carried away ... So I choked her.
Arthur Shawcross
#92. And I want nothing more than to wrap myself around him and be carried away to a place where I don't have to think. A place where there's no guilt or fear, no right or wrong, no divine punishments or senseless accidents or indeterminate states.
Tammara Webber
#93. Okay, please do the memory wipe thing to my parents. That sounds amazing. And while you're at it, there was this time when I was twelve that I crashed my moms car into the garage door..."
"Lets not get carried away Mr. Portman.
Ransom Riggs
#94. 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.
Howard Zinn
#95. Don't get carried away, become a car on the coaster and let others enjoy the ride.
Tristyn Lippingwell
#96. Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.
Jay Gould
#98. When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#100. I still like to get carried away - but passively.
Robert Plant
