Best Sway Quotes
161 Sway quotes by 135 unique authors
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What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
— Eric Hoffer
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Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you…
— Mike Royko
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of…
— William McKinley
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It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind…
— Edward Bernays
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We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come…
— Mamie Till
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to…
— Zach Braff
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous…
— John Milton
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Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes…
— Cornel West
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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
— Alexander Pope
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... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.
— Edmund Spenser
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Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not…
— Edward Bernays
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If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.
— Edward Bernays
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Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the…
— John Welwood
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When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over…
— Marianne Williamson
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By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best…
— James Hillman
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The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking…
— Gabrielle Roth
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The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
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