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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
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
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
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
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 skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep. — Virgil
The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real
— Peter Milligan
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
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
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
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
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
Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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
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
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
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
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
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
— Adrian Rogers
Everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
— John Geddes
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
