Best Swept Away Quotes
83 Swept Away quotes by 71 unique authors
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
— Pema Chodron
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Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
— Samuel Johnson
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Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born,…
— John Clare
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I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by…
— Unknown Author
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the…
— Colonel Sanders
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The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.
— Jethro Tull
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How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
— Thomas Sowell
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If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
— Edith Wharton
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Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the…
— Gabrielle Roth
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of…
— Pema Chodron
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get…
— Marc Gafni
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This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here,…
— Winston Churchill
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We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole…
— Pope Pius XI
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
— William H. Macy
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A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell…
— Martin Buber
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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