Sweeping Quotes

161 Sweeping quotes by 150 unique authors

Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now… — Ted Kooser
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a… — Freeman Dyson
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production… — Barry Commoner
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of… — Kim Campbell
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. — Ali Vincent
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people. — Rupert Murdoch
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today! — Adrian Rogers
Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet… — Graham Nash
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains… — Unknown Author
A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which… — Owen Gleiberman
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to… — Mao Zedong
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and… — Richard Lamm
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. — Bernadette Peters
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and… — Jude Bijou
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly… — Naguib Mahfouz
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member… — Chloe Sevigny
It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too… — Christina Hoff Sommers
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII

Who Wrote These Sweeping Quotes

150 authors contributed a total of 161 Sweeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: