I want to be romanced; I want to be swept away—I want…

“Being held by him, kissed and mastered, taken under and swept away, enthralled her in a way she—an independent woman if nothing else in…

— Tracy Sumner

“Women want to be bitten and swept away by a sparkling, 100-year-old, handsome vampire.”

— Chrissy Peebles

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the…

— Pope Pius XI

“a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,”

— Terry Brooks

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

You can get swept away quickly - it's terrifying. When you're living a more luxurious life - being brought out to a fancy boat…

— Lola Young

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense…

— Pema Chodron

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in…

— Gabrielle Roth

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to…

— Stephen Boss

“The boy who had stood with such grace after the storm had become the storm, and all that was beautiful within him was swept…

— Clayton Kinnelon Greiman