#carried

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#american #american woman #be the first #carried #expectations

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#carried #certain #dragged #everyone #groups

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. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor

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. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#away #carried #crime #detaining #explanation

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#blood #carried #dust #dwell #soul

…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#the-things-they-carried #tim-o-brien #virgin #love

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#carried #ease #feather #heaven #lying

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. ↗

— James Larkin

#arrangement #carried #degree #employers #gain

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#bride #carried #fifth #her #scotch

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

— LeBron James

#away #being #carried #gang #me