#carrie

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#carries #couple #defender #figure #game

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. ↗

— Usher

#carried #child #father #hated #his

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#because #carried #enormous #followers #his

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#benefit #carries #equivalent #every #failure

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. ↗

— La Monte Young

#carried #failing #heaven #i #listeners

In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#dreams

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#forgiveness

One thing I often get carried away with is piggyback rides.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #piggyback #piggyback-rides #funny