Sweep Quotes

251 quotes by 230 authors

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.… — Gaston Bachelard
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will… — Henry Ward Beecher
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control… — Lord Byron
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let… — Dale Carnegie
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and… — George McGovern
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep… — Max Lucado
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you… — Jack Handey
Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over… — Herbert Hoover
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds… — Kenny Rogers
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul… — George Eliot
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a… — Pierre Clostermann
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and… — Adam Sedgwick

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