Sweep Quotes

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful, Heart, Blessings

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Today, Yourself

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone, Whole, Door

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Deep, Control, Dark

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen King

Hope, Someone, Writing

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day

Off, Feet, Swept

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Men, Law, Older

Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Billy Connolly

Job, Tell, Workplace

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
Callan McAuliffe

Time, Around, House

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison

Heart, Moment, American

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan

Action, Stage, Movement

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
Bob Woodward

Number, Suspect, Watergate

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Kenneth Branagh

Trying, Guilty, Carpet

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
John L. Lewis

Greed, Few, Resentment

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
K. D. Lang

Through, Play, Wanted

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

Morning, Sleep, Night

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Bill Condon

Try, Problems, Rug

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold

Nature, Mind, Control

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
Will Durst

Humor, History, Find

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock

History, Through, Country

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
Randy West

Enjoy, Action, Fast

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.
Jeff Ross

Bad, Forget, Put

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.
John Eaton

Music, Audience, Involved

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren

Money, Corruption, Away

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Evil, Through, Victory

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
Michael Tilson Thomas

Work, Good, Experience

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.
Wesley Morris

Time, Happen, Wanted

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
Jon Ronson

Different, Happens, Somebody

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale

Computers, Around, Kids

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill

Power, Night, Goal

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