Sweep Quotes - page 12

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. (Gretel Ehrlich)
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. View quote
George A. Smith
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. View quote
Henry Anatole Grunwald
There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it. View quote
Hayley Mills
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle. View quote
J. Anthony Lukas
When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it. View quote
Jeff Ross
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. View quote
Joseph Epstein
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. View quote
Margot Kidder
I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything. View quote
David Duffield
On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object. View quote
George Grey
I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign. (Nate Berkus)
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
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. View quote
Peter Guber
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded. View quote
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action. View quote
Randy West
The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since. View quote
Skylar Astin
We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. View quote
Steven Cojocaru
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. View quote
Steven Squyres
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. View quote
Will Durst
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life. View quote
Mary Downing Hahn
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)
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In the 78 years since I was born in what I hope I am still entitled to call Calcutta - not Tollygunge - all this has rightly been swept aside, and my life bears no resemblance to my childhood. Almost all my friends in India are Indian. I have an Indian son-in-law and an Indian daughter-in-law. I do know an Indian language, although I would know it a lot better if more people would speak to me in Hindi rather than English. View quote
Mark Tully
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
When they would speak earlier, they would make fun of me. But if we had got 25 out of 26 [Gujarat Lok Sabha seats] also, I would have got a beating. But I thank Gujarat for the [26-seat BJP] clean sweep. I was told, in Gujarat, almost 60 [percent of] people voted for BJP, That is a new misaal [paradigm] in India. View quote
Narendra Modi