Quotes about Carried Away

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling. Votes: 5

People who never get carried away should be. Votes: 4

It's easy to get carried away with yourself. Votes: 4

Men who never get carried away should be. Votes: 4

I am not allowing myself to get carried away. Votes: 4

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. Votes: 4

I still like to get carried away - but passively. Votes: 4

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions. Votes: 4

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects. Votes: 4

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Votes: 4

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away. Votes: 4

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves. Votes: 4

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. Votes: 4

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements. Votes: 4

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. Votes: 4

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? Votes: 4

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. Votes: 4

Nothing's more fun than being carried away. Votes: 3

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away. Votes: 3

Those carried away by power are soon carried away. Votes: 3

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale. Votes: 3

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu Votes: 3

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode. Votes: 3

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? Votes: 3

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. Votes: 3

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself. Votes: 3

We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away. Votes: 3

She was giving me oral sex, and she got carried away . . . So I choked her. Votes: 3

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Votes: 3

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it. Votes: 3

Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away. Votes: 3

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. Votes: 3

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it. Votes: 3

Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. Votes: 3

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears. Votes: 3

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. Votes: 3

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. Votes: 3

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. Votes: 3

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. Votes: 3

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter. Votes: 3

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses. Votes: 3

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. Votes: 3

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. Votes: 3

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. Votes: 3

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. Votes: 3

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Votes: 3

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. Votes: 3

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light. Votes: 3

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it. Votes: 3

I got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun. Votes: 3

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze. Votes: 3

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze. Votes: 3

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. Votes: 3

Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away. Votes: 3

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments. Votes: 3

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination. Votes: 3

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-- Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Votes: 3

There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!" ... "Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'. Votes: 3

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty! Votes: 3

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. Votes: 3

Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everythingIs to succumb to violence. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. Votes: 3

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms. Votes: 3

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred. Votes: 3

And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale. Votes: 3

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry. Votes: 3

Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We need to be together." "Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard. "Because I want you." I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him. I let go Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. Votes: 3

Age carries all things away, even the mind. Votes: 2

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' Votes: 2

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. Votes: 2

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. Votes: 2

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. Votes: 2

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. Votes: 0

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. Votes: 0

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -" Votes: 0

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. Votes: 0

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - Votes: 0

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... Votes: 0

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. Votes: 0

Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!" Votes: 0