Swept Away Quotes

83 quotes by 73 authors

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is… — Marcus Aurelius
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in… — Emily Greene Balch
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. — Honore de Balzac
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm… — Byron Katie
We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which… — Lane Kirkland
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured… — Annie Besant
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You… — Henepola Gunaratana
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was… — Scott Avett
I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for… — Levi Johnston
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient… — Charles Krauthammer
I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning… — Ron Rash
The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away — Colonel Sanders
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They… — Joseph Kastein
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. — Winston Churchill
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. — Mahatma Gandhi
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy
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
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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