Swept Quotes

316 Swept quotes by 269 unique authors

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing. — Unknown Author
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? — Alanis Morissette
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of MercyÂ´s campaign among the… — Mark Twain
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave… — Willa Cather
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the… — Gilbert Parker
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown. — Steven Pressfield
Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense… — Cameron Sinclair
And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless… — Lawren Harris
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is… — Rachel Carson
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. — Richard Codey
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his… — Bayard Taylor
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and… — Jackson Browne
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the… — Nicolas Roeg
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to… — Jean de la Bruyere
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood,… — Charles Caleb Colton
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the… — William E. Gladstone
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. — William Faulkner
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic… — Alan Coren

Who Wrote These Swept Quotes

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