Quotes about Swept

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. Votes: 3

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. Votes: 3

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. Votes: 3

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 as light itself - /All gold and white and light. Votes: 3

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Votes: 2

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. Votes: 2

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. Votes: 2

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 2

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Votes: 2

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 Virginia. Votes: 2

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 aside. Votes: 2

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center. Votes: 2

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency. Votes: 2

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 been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Votes: 2

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. Votes: 2

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 really found within and through meaningful connections with other people. Votes: 2

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 is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. Votes: 2

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going. Votes: 2

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 swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Votes: 2

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers. Votes: 2

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch. Votes: 2

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. Votes: 2

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. Votes: 2

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant. Votes: 2

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. Votes: 2

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. Votes: 2

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. Votes: 2

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement. Votes: 2

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. Votes: 2

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. Votes: 2

Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds. Votes: 0

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau. Votes: 0

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept. Votes: 0

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger. Votes: 0

I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control. Votes: 0

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. Votes: 0

Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet. Votes: 0

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. Votes: 0

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. Votes: 0

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away, Votes: 0

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. Votes: 0

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way Votes: 0

As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away. Votes: 0

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. Votes: 0

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. Votes: 0

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing. Votes: 0

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. Votes: 0

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away Votes: 0

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. Votes: 0

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera. Votes: 0

You can't order me away, you pissant human--""I just did." Kas swept past him... Votes: 0

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. Votes: 0

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person. Votes: 0

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away Votes: 0

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. Votes: 0

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet. Votes: 0

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. Votes: 0

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? Votes: 0

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it. Votes: 0

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. Votes: 0

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job. Votes: 0

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. Votes: 0

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Votes: 0

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. Votes: 0

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. Votes: 0

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. Votes: 0

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real. Votes: 0

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only Votes: 0

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. Votes: 0

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. Votes: 0

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke. Votes: 0

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. Votes: 0

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley. Votes: 0

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. Votes: 0

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. Votes: 0

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. Votes: 0

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. Votes: 0

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men Votes: 0

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy. Votes: 0

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything. Votes: 0

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. Votes: 0

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas. Votes: 0

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty Votes: 0

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them. Votes: 0

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? Votes: 0

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. Votes: 0

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. ["¦] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. Votes: 0

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields. Votes: 0

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. Votes: 0

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 0

I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine. Votes: 0

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes. Votes: 0

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. Votes: 0

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness. Votes: 0

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug. Votes: 0

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away." Votes: 0

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. Votes: 0

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose. Votes: 0

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient. Votes: 0

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. Votes: 0

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it. Votes: 0

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. Votes: 0

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost. Votes: 0

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away. Votes: 0

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Votes: 0

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days. Votes: 0

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. Votes: 0

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. Votes: 0

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. Votes: 0

The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism. Votes: 0

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path. Votes: 0

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life. Votes: 0

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. Votes: 0

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day. Votes: 0

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? Votes: 0

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake. Votes: 0

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. Votes: 0

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside. Votes: 0

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill. Votes: 0

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. Votes: 0

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe. Votes: 0

Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight. Votes: 0

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. Votes: 0

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. Votes: 0

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. Votes: 0

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 end. Votes: 0

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. Votes: 0

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. Votes: 0

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. Votes: 0

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 perspective. Votes: 0

T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough Votes: 0

I thought I'd saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through. Votes: 0

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen. Votes: 0

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 associations. Votes: 0

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 to practice? Votes: 0

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity. Votes: 0

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame. Votes: 0

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems. Votes: 0

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 be swept away. Votes: 0

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. Votes: 0

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 every other regard. Votes: 0

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. Votes: 0

The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley." Votes: 0

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them. Votes: 0

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things. Votes: 0

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 whatever to their efforts. Votes: 0

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective. Votes: 0

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish. Votes: 0

I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere. Votes: 0

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential. Votes: 0

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him. Votes: 0

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 chosen the garbage disposal unit. Votes: 0

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Votes: 0

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity. Votes: 0

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. Votes: 0

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before. Votes: 0

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence. Votes: 0

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion. Votes: 0

During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common. Votes: 0

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that dont matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency. Votes: 0

He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. Votes: 0

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been Votes: 0

She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away. Votes: 0

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. Votes: 0

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill. Votes: 0

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough. Votes: 0

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea. Votes: 0

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded. Votes: 0

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like "“ if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself. Votes: 0

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses. Votes: 0

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there. Votes: 0

I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away. Votes: 0

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time. Votes: 0

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break? Votes: 0

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 Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. Votes: 0

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes. Votes: 0

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love. Votes: 0

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it. Votes: 0

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make. Votes: 0

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old. Votes: 0

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 clock that says, "You're caught in the dream." Votes: 0

Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly. Votes: 0

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood. Votes: 0

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich. Votes: 0

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. Votes: 0

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, And all poor April's charms are swept away. Votes: 0

Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony. Votes: 0

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 carpet under which everything has been swept. Votes: 0

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 the year and a half we were apart. Votes: 0

In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told. Votes: 0

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny. Votes: 0

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more? Votes: 0

The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets. Votes: 0

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. Votes: 0

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. Votes: 0

As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore Votes: 0

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you. Votes: 0

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 release 'deadwood' and anything needing to be swept away. Votes: 0

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief. Votes: 0

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. Votes: 0

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 glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns. Votes: 0

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do. Votes: 0

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. Votes: 0