Swept Quotes

316 Swept quotes by 269 unique authors

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
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life… — Robert Frost
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had… — Jean Genet
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my… — Elizabeth Gilbert
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to… — Dave Grohl
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. — Clarence Day
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an… — Michael Haneke
I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many… — Chris Hemsworth
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept… — John F. Kennedy
I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in… — Steven Morrissey

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