Sweep Quotes

251 Sweep quotes by 224 unique authors

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds… — Arthur Golden
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies… — Helen Keller
Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you… — Sarah MacLean
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on… — Franz Kafka
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative… — Stephen King
I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry… — Jack Gantos
Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't… — Deborah Harkness
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. — Philip Pullman
Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking… — James Dashner
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes… — Maggie Stiefvater
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is… — Pema Chodron
It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb… — Libba Bray
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would… — Amanda Hocking
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. — Louise Erdrich
It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe… — Tana French
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal… — Robert Kennedy
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more… — Martha Graham
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. — Arthur Helps
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag… — Peggy Noonan
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every… — Lady Randolph Churchill
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly… — George Smoot

Who Wrote These Sweep Quotes

224 authors contributed a total of 251 Sweep Quotes, led by these top contributors: