Sweeping Quotes
161 quotes by 154 authors
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The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know…
— Malcolm X
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The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
— Bertrand Russell
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The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard…
— Fred Hoyle
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In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.
— Tony Dungy
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view,…
— Richard Bach
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No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,…
— George Washington
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The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time…
— Rick Strassman
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If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay…
— Groucho Marx
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts…
— Norman Grubb
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
— Debbie Allen
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
— Joseph Brodsky
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The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is…
— Malcolm X
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The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
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To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that…
— Billy Graham
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In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look…
— Charles Dickens
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Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the…
— Arthur Carhart
Who Wrote These Sweeping Quotes
154 authors contributed a total of 161 Sweeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: