Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by… — Susan Piver Copy Share Image
“For once she wished she could be the wave, a powerful force to be reckoned with, rather than a speck on the… — Cecelia Mecca Copy Share Image
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy. — Adriano Giannini Copy Share Image
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Victoria melted against him as they kissed. Ramsay’s arms around her swept away the sadness that had been plaguing her since his… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that… — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it… — Vittorio Arrigoni Copy Share Image
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“They’d done it for love, because that was the effect love had on you. It snuck up on you, it grabbed hold… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Teetering in the space between light and dark…awake and asleep…death and immortality, she was buffeted by the continuous ebb and flow of… — Luna Saint Claire Copy Share Image
I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
You can get swept away quickly - it's terrifying. When you're living a more luxurious life - being brought out to a… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image