Swept Quotes
316 Swept quotes by 269 unique authors
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means…
— Aleister Crowley
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Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.
— M. J. Ryan
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Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
— Susan Piver
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I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through…
— Zachary Quinto
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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
— David Lloyd George
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When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe in…
— Heinrich Himmler
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The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans to…
— Doreen Virtue
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a…
— Sara Gruen
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril…
— Winston Churchill
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Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
— Jim Rogers
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Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.…
— Vittorio Arrigoni
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When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
— Susie Bright
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In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them…
— Eli Pariser
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We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
— Steven Cojocaru
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Who Wrote These Swept Quotes
269 authors contributed a total of 316 Swept Quotes, led by these top contributors: