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I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. — Margaret Atwood

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. — Kenneth Clark

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process. — Alexander McCall Smith

And I try sweeping it all one side — Yesenia Vargas

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. — Richard M. Nixon

Snow sweeping downward,
While the flowers reach upward--
Winter storm in spring.

— Steve Peterson

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor. — Ilona Andrews

I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret. — Karen Marie Moning

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details. — John Darnielle

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise. — Frank Langella

It's an important part of knight training - sweeping maidens off their feet. — Katie M. John

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting. — Chloe Sevigny

Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody — Judith McNaught

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh

The desert wind was strong, and the dust came over the street like fog. Still, two men were sweeping the road. — Dave Eggers

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. — Connie Willis

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. — Ali Vincent

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. — Kara Walker

and can you blame them? I mean, look at me," Cal said, one hand sweeping to take in his frame. — Jonathan P. Brazee

Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country! — Billy Graham

The dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep. — Virgil

Like a wing sweeping them into its embrace, the storm closed around them. — Steven Erikson

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real — Peter Milligan

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. — Felix J. Palma

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. — Homer

Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God. — Mary Fabyan Windeatt

That's a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been. — Sophie Page

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life. — Jimi Hendrix

Sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. — David Weber

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.' — Rachel Kushner

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The stairway to heaven is not a sweeping spiral vanishing to infinity but a tiny step that leads to the next step. — Chloe Thurlow

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. — Fritz Todt

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. — Shirley Conran

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it. — Jodi Picoult

Imagine if we treated offensive words like we treat chemical pollution. I'd love to see a 'Talk Green' campaign sweeping the world — Sahar El-Nadi

sweeping out of shops, and the — Charles Dickens

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. — John Griffin Carlisle

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. — Joe Bousquet

Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop's car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes. — Marie Helvin

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers. — Groucho Marx

From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel. — Alice Walker

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene. — Lenny Abrahamson

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work. — Debbie Allen

I had always imagined being in love as some grand, sweeping epic. A prince on a white horse. Dashing. — Allison Parr

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people. — Rupert Murdoch

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell

The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. — Sappho

Society, and proceeded to introduce a series of sweeping social, economic, and political reforms, including — Leo Tolstoy

If being grounded is important, stay away from Prince Charming because he will sweep you off your feet. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Cinderella was made for more than sweeping the floor. — Beth Moore Jones

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow? — Rumi

Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body. — Deborah King

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I wanted something grand and sweeping."
"The kind of love you find in novels?"
"Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose. — Paula McLain

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets. — Jeremy Corbyn

From a small piece of relevant evidence, sweeping assertions can be properly made about the true nature of the beast. — Kevin Dubrosky

The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS — Ram Dass

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

Aomame imagined the carefree winds sweeping across the plains of Bohemia and thought about the vicissitudes of history. — Haruki Murakami

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. — Bernadette Peters

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. — Marcus Aurelius

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. — John Burns

Love is sweeping the country. — Ira Gershwin

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. — John Caudwell

When you keep sweeping things under the carpet, eventually the lump is big enough for the auditors to trip over. — Bill Sanderson

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. — Robert A. Heinlein

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry. — Caleb Deschanel

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man. — Steven Gerrard

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization. — Michael Dell

Time, sweeping through its rounds, gives birth to infinite nights and days ... — Sophocles

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

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. — Meghan Markle

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas. — M.K. Hobson

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest. — Georgie Anne Geyer

Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure. — Anna Akhmatova

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. — Teddy Wilson

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today! — Adrian Rogers

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years. — Antonin Scalia

Everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ... — John Geddes

Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale. — Nancy Northup

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton

His smile is a virus. A virus sweeping through my body, rendering it useless. — Miranda Kenneally

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But in the 'nineties young men desired something more sweeping and passionate, more bold and less bland. — Bertrand Russell

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. — Bill Bryson

Mountain with a sweeping view of the mountain range. Under starlight, — J.L. Bryan

A sudden wind thrashed the treetops in the garden, sweeping down from the east. — Steven Erikson

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. — Dan Hill

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. — Billy Sunday