Carried Quotes
1124 Carried quotes by 898 unique authors
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...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system…
— Kurt Gödel
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"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.
— Terry Pratchett
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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
— Winston Churchill
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.…
— Don DeLillo
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The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance…
— Christopher J. H. Wright
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Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
— Alfred Shrubb
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Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
— James Russell Lowell
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Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our…
— Emma Goldman
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The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born…
— Naomi Wolf
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He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at…
— William Gaddis
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The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference…
— Alexander Alekhine
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity…
— Joseph Addison
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Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
— Dagobert D. Runes
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I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is…
— Sean Paul
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A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in…
— Luis de Camoes
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War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
— Herman Melville
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The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it…
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there…
— Takuan Soho
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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…
— William Adams
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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,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter…
— Jim Cymbala
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Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
— Natalie Goldberg
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