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  • 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.

    Kids   Space   Choices  
  • If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

    "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.
  • 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.

    Animal   Men   Lakes  
  • 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.

    Done   Captains   Ships  
  • Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  • Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

    Summer   Strong   Passion  
    Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf
  • These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

    Song: Moment 4 Life, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Weed   Men   White Man  
  • If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  • I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.
  • What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

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

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

  • 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.

    "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.
  • A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

  • For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

    Dog   Sacrifice   Order  
    The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)
  • 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.

    Giving   House   Details  
  • 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.

    Real   Phones   House  
  • 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.

    Rivers   Events   Violent  
    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.46, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

    Love   Beautiful   Way  
  • I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

    Running   Mistake   Risk  
  • 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.

    Eye   Years   Wind  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303
  • I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

    Ideas   Abandon   My Own  
  • Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

    Real   Moving   Thinking  
    Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books
  • The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

    Mistake   Blood   People  
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Sarcastic   Fire   Blood  
  • 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.

    "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
  • 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'.

    Baby   Dad   Soul  
    "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.
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