Carry Quotes - page 3

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. (Jane Austen)
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Home-that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. View quote
James Russell Lowell
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. View quote
Will Rogers
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. View quote
Anne Frank
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. View quote
Ann Landers
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. (Alan Turing)
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. View quote
Barack Obama
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. View quote
John Galsworthy
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. View quote
Henry Ford
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
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. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us. View quote
John Chrysostom
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
When his companions wished to return to their country, and asked him what message he wished them to carry home, he bade them say this: that children ought to be provided with property and resources of a kind that could swim with them even out of a shipwreck. (Vitruvius)
With regard to burnt brick... If not made of good clay or if not baked sufficiently, it shows itself defective... when exposed to frosts and rime. Brick that will not stand exposure on roofs can never be strong enough to carry its load in a wall. Hence the strongest burnt brick walls are those which are constructed out of old roofing tiles. View quote
Vitruvius
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. View quote
Vitruvius
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? View quote
Manuel Puig
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish. View quote
Mark Haddon