Quotes of Swept - somelinesforyou

“ History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. ”

- Robert Frost

“ You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ”

- Clarence Day

“ Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future, but a way to death. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. ”

- Fred Beck

“ He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides. ”

- Unknown

“ Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. ”

- Unknown

“ A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit. ”

- Ivan Chtcheglov

“ Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ”

- Marcus Arelius Antoninus

“ No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ”

- James A. Froude

“ Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. ”

- Aleister Crowley

“ Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism… Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ”

- Joseph Ratzinger

“ New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary. ”

- Colin Quinn

“ At the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became drug number one. It was then used incautiously and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects… ”

- Albert Hofmann

“ Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ”

- Pope Benedict XVI

“ The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ”

- Yu Lu

“ A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ”

- Jean Genet
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