Swaying Quotes
41 quotes by 41 authors
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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous…
— Billie Burke
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One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf…
— David Ignatow
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
— Rupert Brooke
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All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each…
— Hermann Hesse
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I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the…
— Wright Thompson
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When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.
— Marjolein Bastin
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I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular…
— Gerald Durrell
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Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
— F. S Flint
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Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark…
— Octavio Paz
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The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of…
— Arpad Elo
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Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass,…
— Kirk Douglas
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Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes…
— A Fine Frenzy
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In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade…
— John Banville
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The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating…
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to…
— Drayton Bird
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Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free…
— Jonathan Raban
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A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.
— John Vance Cheney
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There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the…
— Henry Clay
Who Wrote These Swaying Quotes
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