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Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office. — Wernher Von Braun

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. — Vera Nazarian

He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it. — Jean Hegland

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. — Billy Graham

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books. — Lisa Brown Roberts

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

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it. — Florence Scovel Shinn

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse. — Quentin Crisp

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair. — Paula Heller Garland

What we need is another great ice to come and sweep us all into the ocean. To give God a second chance. — Philipp Meyer

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between
Is my journey's end coming? — Herman Melville

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11. — Ronald Kessler

this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures. — Sanober Khan

We all traverse in and out of people's worlds, leaving footprints. Some larger, some smaller, but there is always a mark. We can't sweep it away. — Krista Ritchie

Her kiss didn't sweep away the dark anguish he felt in his heart. Instead, it embraced it. It acknowledged it. — Courtney Milan

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost. — John Dryden

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

Sweep to my side, please don't delay. Share your warmth as you swirl and sway. — Shannon Messenger

I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust. — Larry Burkett

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean. — Mother Teresa

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week. — Jill Lepore

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented. — Bobby Charlton

Beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time, ... beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time. — Milan Kundera

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. — Emma Smith

Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust? — Charles Kingsley

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What kind of a modern woman was she, if she didn't reach for her own dream? Maybe it was time to sweep the man off his feet, for a change. — Tessa Dare

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. — Marcus Aurelius

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep. — Peter Hollingworth

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing. — Henry Ward Beecher

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. — Lauren Oliver

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors. — Charles De Gaulle

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have. — Cate Tiernan

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is. — Paul Mooney

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

That's why I need a man who can sweep away the mess I made. — Nina Ardianti

I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Enzo enters with a sweep of dark robes, bringing with him the scent of wind, night, and death. — Marie Lu

The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold! — Israelmore Ayivor

What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head — David Lloyd

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again. — Sandra Bernhard

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

I saw the autumn leaves peel up of the street, Take wing on the balmy breeze and sweep you off your feet — Owl City

There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois. — Emile Zola

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean. — Robin S. Sharma

What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep all away. — Erich Maria Remarque

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up. — P.G. Wodehouse

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky. — Frederick Lenz

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything. — David Duffield

I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving. — Don Wright

Lift the rug of your subconscious and sweep all the dirt under. Good-bye. — Stephen King

A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention. — Farrah Field

Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before;
To sweep the dust behind the door. — William Shakespeare

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day. — Dawud Wharnsby Ali

I don't care if the streets of Heaven are gold or not as long as they're clean and I don't have to sweep them. — John Northcutt Young

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — Joseph Stalin

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along. — Michel De Montaigne

If you let someone sweep you off your feet, you better be prepared to land on your ass. — Devan Sipher

Winds sweep the passages of time
Forever more
Taking, leaving
Memories. — Tyler Colins

The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors. — Jean-Pierre Alaux

The sweep of his arms was wide and athletic, more like a quarterback than a middling golfer who had dropped off the tour. — Nichole Bernier

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

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor. — Mother Teresa

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby

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

If I were trying to sweep you off your feet, you'd be swept. Period. - Adam from Moonlight — Lisa Kessler

Books were a healthy drug. They could sweep me away from storms, make me forget bruises, and soothe any emotional ache, if only for a moment. — Cara Dee

I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep. — Steve Bruce

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. — Robert Frost

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

Energy and invincible determination, these two things will sweep away mighty barriers and will surmount the greatest obstacles — William Walker Atkinson

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to — Phillips Brooks

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations. — Alistair Begg

I still hung onto the hope that my broken knight would gallop back into my life and sweep me off my feet. — A Meredith Walters

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

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." from Clean Sweep — Ilona Andrews

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. — Frank Yerby

SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep! — Rick Riordan

On the canvas of life,
Every sweep of the brush matters,
Counts for something ... — Scott Hastie

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones. — Meg Wolitzer

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure. — Sri Aurobindo

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition. — Napoleon Hill

Cross that rules the Southern Sky!
Stars that sweep, and turn, and fly
Hear the Lovers' Litany: -
'Love like ours can never die! — Rudyard Kipling

If you don't want love to sweep into your life, the easiest way to block it is to live a fear-based life. — Annette Vaillancourt

It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real. — Michael Chabon

We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land. — Alexander Pushkin

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. — Henry Grunwald