Sweep Quotes
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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