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Quotes About Swaying

Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation.
~ Adolf Hitler
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
~ Lou Reed
If you transported a man from the Middle Ages into this nightclub, thinks Jakob, he would surely believe himself damned to hell, imprisoned among a swaying horde of ill-lit souls who wet the dance floor with their sweat, boys and girls and girls and boys, no couples, everyone dancing together or everyone dancing alone.
~ David Benioff
Wind is in the cane. Come along.Cane leaves swaying, rusty with talk,Scratching choruses above the guinea's squawk,Wind is in the cane. Come along.
~ Jean Toomer
Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.
~ Fredric Brown
Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?
~ John Gould Fletcher
The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse... You could see yourself in it... while the wind, the light, the swaying, the sound of the water on the hull worked the miracle of distancing, calming you until you didn't hurt anymore, erasing any pity, any wound, and any remorse.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Struck by the limitless horizon and expanse of sky, and perhaps also influenced by the sight of vehicles swaying crazily in and out of potholes like ships in a heavy swell, the more imaginative saw the steppe as an uncharted sea. General Strecker described it in a letter as 'an ocean that might drown the invader'.
~ Antony Beevor
Where got she her sullen mouth And where her swaying form? Would she live on eggs and apples When the blood of men is warm? ("The Young Witch")
~ George Sterling
the neighborhood was quiet, its colonial houses decaying in stoic dignity beneath the swaying palm trees.
~ Barry Eisler
could hear creaking sounds as the boats shifted in the harbor waters, bobbing and swaying with an occasional tinkling of metal on metal. Our footsteps formed an irregular rhythm as we clunked along the walkway.
~ Sue Grafton
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!
~ bishop elizabeth ii
It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I swayed in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood loosing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power that first moved it is withdrawn.
~ Herman Melville
Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life...
~ Stephen Schwartz
Within a very short space of time, I had to lean against the wall for support, the ground beneath my feet swaying as if I was on a boat. In fact, it was more comforting to imagine that I was.
~ Storm Constantine
Trees love to toss and sway they make such happy noises.
~ Emily Carr
Then, walking across the room, hips swaying, blond hair flowing as if in a shampoo commercial, came Joe's date. Tall. Skinny. Big boobs despite the skinniness, their cantaloupe-like roundness announcing them as store-bought
~ Kristan Higgins
When you rock any type of baby, sway back and forward, not side to side or up and down. Before your baby was born, she sloshed around front to back inside you as you walked, so she's used to, and comforted by, that kind of movement.
~ Tracy Hogg
I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la... All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me. Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.
~ Cate Tiernan
ANYONE SEEING AN OLD DERELICT SOT SLOWLY SWAYING down Moon Avenue in Bisbee that afternoon
~ Clive Cussler
absolutely superb, thought Peter Walsh, swaying
~ Virginia Woolf
the task was critical. Aboard a swaying ship, the ampolletas were the only reliable timepiece
~ Laurence Bergreen
These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, dont they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms.
~ Leon Garfield