Quotes about carry
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“Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Source: Golden Fool

Knowledge, Loss, Parting

“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 (1915–1968) Priest and author

Time, Help

“i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Mountain, Deep

“The sweatshirt was big on her and she looked ridiculous. He liked it. And he liked that she was wearing something that carried his scent.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

Diana Gabaldon book Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Women

“Carried away.
He got a little carried away.
This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Way, Science, Past, Future

“You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms."
Joe Morelli”

Janet Evanovich Four to Score

Source: Four to Score

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

Cormac McCarthy book Suttree

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Source: Suttree (1979)

Death, Memory, Dead

“I carry the bars within me.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Change

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

God

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Women

“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Imagination, Girl

“Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”
“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Drink, Past

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Education, Clothes

“Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.”

Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist

“What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house.
You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Books, World, Housing, Box

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

People

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: VALIS (1981)

Fish

“The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Horse

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

Source: Nightwoods

Books, Reading

“Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.

—Matthias”

Brian Jacques book Mattimeo

Source: Mattimeo

Fear, Learning, Evil

“Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Women, Men, Happiness, World

“There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Way, Home, Boy, Time

“I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

Light

“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it… It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

Love, Hate

“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 21.

“Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Hope, Chance, Night

“Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Housing

“One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.”

Allen Wheelis (1915–2007) American psychoanalyst

Animals

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: Absent Presence

Dreams, Night

“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories

Flowers, Housing

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Dreams, Water

“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Dreams, Reality

“The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Books, Reading

“Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Truth, Strong

“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'.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Soul, Baby

“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”

Terry Goodkind book Temple of the Winds

Source: Temple of the Winds

Failure

“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

God

“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

World, Time

“I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Help

“The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.”

Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) Social psychologist

Source: Obedience to Authority

Personality

“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Happiness, Dreams, Reality

“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 book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Love, Hate, Heart, Parting

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 40 : The Valley Of The Shadow
Source: Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives

Love

“We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Parent

“Keep Calm and Carry On”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?"
"Yep."
"Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?"
"No, it's a pie.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Heart

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Secret, Flowers

“She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

Source: By a Spider's Thread

Life, Girl, Strong

“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Light

“Keep calm and carry on.
Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Love, Guy, Girl, Thinking

“The past could be jettisoned… but seeds got carried.”

Joan Didion Where I Was From

Source: Where I Was From

Past

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer

Variant: It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Way, Motivational, Deep, Success

“My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Source: The Archaic Revival

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

Life, Soul, Imagination, Problem

“Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

Life, Dogs

“Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Silence, Help

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea

Dead

“I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Life, Feeling, Sense, Strong

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 4

World, Imagination

“Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Water, Personality

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever… and all the time it is carrying us about… It is the human nervous system itself.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

God, Secret, Time

“Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.”

Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Truth

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Fear, Law

“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”

Charles Frazier book Thirteen Moons

Source: Thirteen Moons

Idea

“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”

Edwidge Danticat (1969) Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Life, People, Strong, Parting

“here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

World, Change

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Way, Birthday, Birthday

“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Dogs, Past

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

Jim Bishop (1907–1987) American journalist and author

Autumn, Season, Beauty

“I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling, Thinking

“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

Alan Alda (1936) actor and United States Army officer

“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Thinking

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

Love, Faith, Loyalty