#carrying

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#carrying #damn #day #double #four

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#carrying #civilisation #disease #disintegration #forbidden

I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#carrying #cause #effect #fill #happen

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#anticipating #carrying #hare #heavy #little

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #intention #mean #out #practice

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #hasn #intention #man #means

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. ↗

— Epictetus

#carrying #corpse #little #soul #you

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ↗

— Jean Genet

#away #been #breeze #carrying #centuries

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. ↗

— Ron Kind

#chance #following #future #give #iraqi