Swept Quotes

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.
John F. Kennedy

History, Future, Past

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.
Robert Frost

Life, Together, Two

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Strong, Place

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
Richard J. Codey

Long, Problems, Away

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.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Attitude, Today

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Away, Sense, Scientific

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

Religion, Great, After

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

Down, Later, Issue

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.
Jean Genet

Great, Friendly, Away

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Wesley Snipes

Life, Stress, Energy

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte

Nature, Sunshine, Light

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

Off, Feet, Sweep

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
Susan Orlean

Time, Mind, Days

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 big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Power, Lost, Giving

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Wedding, Remember, Friends

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 ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.
Chris Hemsworth

Good, Yourself, Hard

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger

Whole, College, Movement

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
Jodi Picoult

Reality, Book, Sometimes

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.
Dave Grohl

Away, Getting, Band

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 artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.
Michael Haneke

Art, Makes, Reflection

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Tim Robbins

Fun, Acting, Office

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.
Joseph Ratzinger

Faith, Attitude, Today

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.
Margot Kidder

Work, Time, Hard

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.
Roland Joffe

Nothing, Football, Wrong

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

Good, Person, Between

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
William H. Macy

Away, Film, Watch

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
Steven Cojocaru

Nobody, Machine, Immune

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

Moon, Star, Catch

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.
Maggie Gallagher

End, Revolution, Beginning

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.
Peter Guber

Love, Experience, Dream

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